These are a few of the headlines I’ve found ‘of interest’ but haven’t had time to write about. You might notice that a lot have been gleaned from the online Site of the Daily Mail. I find it hard to believe this right wing rag could be producing so much ‘social comment’ but there it … More In the news…
Yes it’s that time again when an ancient pagan sacrificial ritual is again resurrected, morphed into a quasi-Christian ‘festival’… only to be morphed once more by children into an excuse to get free goodies!! Indeed… Halloween is once more upon us. As a ‘festival’ it means little in the UK outside the religious significance, as … More Hello… Ian?
Out in the garden last summer the air was green with these little bugs. They are around a centimetre long at their largest and seemed to be congregating from choice over the orange tree. Clearly odd little sap sucking leaf hoppers of some sort but my dilemma is what to do with them? If I … More Something's bugging me!
I mentioned a few days ago that both the air conditioning in the house, and in the car had failed. I took the car in to be repaired this morning and left the house at 7:30 a.m. I looked at the temperature gauge and it told me it was already 27ºC. By the time I … More More on the weather.
Jamboree 2008 is in Tara, near Warragamba Dam and lasts from 27th September to 6th October. They ran from 1966 as ‘musters’ but the name was changed in 2001 to bring NSW into line with the other Guiding groups. They’re held every two years unless there’s an international Jamboree happening and the kids love them! … More Girl Guides – Jamboree 2008
Most of the media commemorations of the 9/11 attack on New York were written and published yesterday… ours memory is slightly different so waits until today to write. It was seven years ago this morning that I switched on the television. The wife was on a business trip and I never sleep well when she’s … More Life changing experiences
The baby humpback whale found stranded and motherless in Sydney Harbour, and named Colin… later Colette, was finally ‘euthanased’ in Sydney Harbour yesterday. There’ve been all sorts of stories about her and the way she was/wasn’t aided by government agencies etc and there is now talk of a *summit* of experts to try to establish … More A whale of a time.
Seems the UK media have been whooping it up because their athletes have won more medals at the Olympics than the Australians. The Sun (see the link) have a headline reading “Brittania Rules the Games”! Basically a country with a population of 62 million is crowing because they are beating one with a population one … More They *cannot* be serious?
I’ve been quietly seething over the armchair critics who are bitching in the media about how *badly* our people are performing at the Olympics because they are *only* coming home with silver or bronze medals instead of gold.What a crock of crap this is!! Just qualifying for the Olympics makes them heroes in my book. … More Who needs the armchair critics?
Time flies when you’re having fun… and when it drifts past without you noticing it going by! Seems it’s *that* time again… in a few days the Olympic Games will start. This time of course, you’ll know it’s going to be in Beijing… unless you’ve been hiding under a rock of course! For some of … More It's that time already?
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