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Well now… here’s a thing. I went back to see the ‘diet doctor’ for the first time since I came down with pneumonia in June and took the wife along for moral support and so she could get a clearer picture of where he and I were coming from. I’ve been getting pretty flaky memory [...]

The Omen

Odd how prescient that film was… It has a US Diplomat raising the son of satan… and here we are with Dubya running the world… strange really how life imitates art. It’s almost enough to make me a true believer.
I’d thought this was a novel thought… but it looks like it’s nothing new… which makes [...]

Halloween again

Kids were out tonight. The little one in a Halloween Party at Guides, the elder one walking the streets with a friend knocking on doors annoying people demanding candy… and getting it!!
Me? I had a book… and a car… so did a bit of kerb-crawling for two hours . How I wasn’t arrested for trawling [...]

It’s ‘that’ time of year.

Yup, as regular as clockwork, in late October in Sydney… well in fact lots of New South Wales… the whole area turns purple. It’s around this time of year that the Jacaranda blooms.
It’s a native of South America but you’d never know it by the numbers of trees that suddenly explode into full flower from [...]

It’s all made out of ticky-tacky

Not sure with this whether to be offended or not. The yanks are making big money out of Steve Irwins death. Following on from South Park’s use of the image of Steve complete with stingray in a recent episode, a costume has been created just in time to worn by kids at Halloween.

I think on [...]

Being gay is a taxing time.

Despite being legally married overseas, the ATO has deemed it illegal for two gay men to submit a joint tax return as other married couples do. This is quite simply because same sex marriages are not lawful in Australia.
The oddness of this decision tho is highlighted by the couple having been able to submit a [...]

More on dentistry

The wife booked the dentist… yippee… I think. Unfortunately it’s on the weekend or she’ll have to take a day off work… and Ray isn’t there on weekends… well who can blame him really? So, upshot is I can’t see the guy I know.
Serves me right for nagging I suppose I wonder what [...]

Our house.

I’ve been tidying up, as I do occasionally, and when I was moving furniture around I realised I don’t like having so much furniture in this room… it is *far* too cluttered for my liking.
Can’t do much with it� as the oldies can’t get upstairs to what is our normal ‘living area’.
Still, it reminded [...]

Dentists… a necessary evil.

I just discovered a hole in one of my lower teeth… right side. This of course means a visit to the dentist. Now I quite like our local dentist Raj… well I like him as a guy… but… well he’s a dentist� and I have bad memories of dentists!!
I suppose in the old days [...]

More on anthocyanins

Odd how your eyes get drawn to something once your mind is tuned in that direction. I was just reading how research groups are working hard to produce a true purple tomato packed with anthocyanins.
Research has shown how useful anthocyanins is as an antioxidant, but tomatoes also carry large amounts of lycopene which can help [...]

Tum te dum te dum

Quiet this morning with nothing to write about… or right about… I say that cos I’ve nothing left to say… gawd I *must* be bored
I have a few things to do. Gardening front and back. Cleaning top and bottom. Well ok I suppose I have an enormous amount to do… but I’m a [...]

Strange how kids change.

About eighteen months or so ago we had a foster child and her sister stay with us. The older girl made a friend at her school and when the girl moved on the friend carried on coming down to play with my eldest daughter despite being 3 years older than her… aged around 11.
Time moves [...]

A little more diet stuff

I spent a large chunk of last night munching on grapes… bloody fabulous ones too! Imported from the USA… small, red and seedless. I think the variety was Red Flame (?). I must have eaten nearly a kilo… and at $15 a kilo it wasn’t a cheap snack by any means.
Most of me figured I [...]

The diet.

The diet isn’t 100% effective yet… I’m still trying to cut everything out but it isn’t so easy
On a theme… I’m sure some of the problems are caused by a food intolerance. Yes last time the pneumonia caused a lot of problems and I ended up eating crap again, but I was already [...]

Shingle Bells

Ouch… ! Went to the docs a week or so ago with the wife. While she was there I asked him about some itchy pimples I had on my shoulder. Aha… says he… shingles! Weird, thinks I… doesn’t shingles cover the stomach, chest and back?
Apparantly not… well not always anyway. Seems the virus travels a [...]

Oh bugger.

Despite my best intentions… I did indeed pick up the wrong tray of seedlings from the garden centre… so my wigwam is going to be covering the dwarf french bean instead of the climbers. Erk… methinks a quick visit to the garden centre will solve the problem… *if* they have climbers there… else it’ll be [...]

Just a little story.

I posted this on the forum but thought it could be usefully posted here too…
I was going through a bit of a bad patch when I was sixteen and after an abortive attempt to move to London I had decided enough was enough and I headed for home back in Wales.
I’d counted my pennies and [...]

You like this? Wheelie?

Neat site this. Has some really cool stickers for your wheelie bin to liven up those miserable lines of green or yellow bins.
You can find them at Wheelie Bin Art. It’s a UK company but they happily post overseas.

Beanz meanz tubz

I spent some of this arvo creating one of those really useful little art works that repays your efforts in kind. What is it?… you say… and I answers… I planted meself a bean tub!
At the front of the house we have a circular concrete sewer access manhole cover thing… which isn’t particularly aesthetically [...]

Oh joy… it’s snowing.

Well ok it isn’t snowing here, but it *is* snowing further south! Seems a cold snap has pushed its way onshore and temperatures have dropped,
To give some indication of how it feels… earlier today the temperature in the garden was 33ºC and currently it’s 14ºC… a drop of 19 degrees! No doubt it feels chillier [...]

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