Mean-spritedness Rules.

Congratulations to the people who thought it would be fun to vandalise our Christmas lights display and and steal some of the decorations.
At this time of year this is a pretty low thing to do. Kids come from all over the place to look at them and get pleasure out of it.
What was even worse [...]

The Maze

Just been watching a programme on the ABC about ‘The Maze’ prison in Northern Ireland. Least said soonest mended no doubt but some comment needs to be made.
For me *the* most telling part was the interview right at the end with the sister a murdered prison officer who was shot and killed in front of [...]

Ewido becomes AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5

Ewido is/was the best little anit-spyware program out there has been absorbed by AVG and it’s become ‘AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5′.
If you don’t have it get it *now*!! It is *so* efficient it’s amazing… better than all the others combined. Trust me

The Coffee Club, Blacktown

As you’ll have noticed if you drop by with any regularity, posts have dropped off a bit over the last week or two. This is as you also know, because my folks are here for Xmas and taking up loads of time.
Well of course we don’t sit indoors doing nothing all day or I’d have [...]

Support growing for David Hicks

At long last there is a growing resentment amongst the general public about the way David Hicks has been treated and a realisation that if *he* can be abandoned by his government then so could perhaps *they* be if in trouble abroad!

Having been left in hell for five years by the Howard government there are [...]

Summer is icumin in… again.

Ok… got the lights done. Got another chair painted… only two more to do then I can mow the lawn then move the furniture off the patio back onto it. Then I have to use some cleaner on the stone tiles and hose them down, and the outside will be good enough for the summer.
All [...]

More ‘family stuff’.

Very proud of the eldest today. Her shcool ‘Presentation Day’ was today and she received two awards. The first was for ‘Proficiency in Music’… the second was a special award for ‘Co-Curricular Activities’.
In part this was for her participation in Chor’us, Tae-kwon-do, Debating, Songmakers, Young Inventors, Stream Watch, Flute Ensemble, String Ensemble, Musicianship, Computer Club… [...]

Kids Concert

Calling it a concert because in most ways that’s what it was. The kids of the school turned up in the local shopping mall and sang and played their hearts out.
Some of them are just *so* damn good!! From the kindy choir onwards they all did wonderful things. The kindy to year twos put on [...]

Vale Peter Boyle

Sad news today with the loss of Peter Boyle who played grumpy but long suffering Frank Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond. He’s been fighting heart disease for some years but has finally lost the battle.
He played a really good part and was a fine comedy actor.

More on IAG insurance

We reported on the demise of our mattress at the end of November and the trouble we’d had with the insurance company but I forgot to mention that the ‘new’ name for NRMA insurance is IAG… no idea why they changed it, but they did.
Anyway… just pointing out that despite them now knowing we have [...]

The Gastrologist calls.

Visited a ‘gastrologist’ today… this is a *long* story whcih started 10 years ago… so I’ll write it up later.
Without trying to be delicate about it, from the mid 1990’s tp date I’ve had what apparantly is diarhoea. I say ‘apparantly’ because I think *my* definition of what it means differed from the doctors. Anyway, [...]

When I was young..

As the old rhyme goes…
When I was young and in my prime
I used to do it all the time
But now that I am old and grey…
… I only manage twice a day.
Of course this has nothing to do with the story and neither claim is true other than in my imagination.
However… he says moving along [...]

My Mother

Doesn’t like the cold… of course she’s not overly enthusiastic about the hot either but that’s another story. This is just a short note about our table heater… a little gas powered warmer that extends our use of the patio in the evenings by warming us around the table as we eat… or whatever.
I’ve been [...]

Gawd… another tear jerker.

I’m back on about Bindi Irwin again She’s had an interview (Daddy wouldn’t want me to cry) published in which she describes approaching Xmas without her dad, Crocodile Hunter, Steve.
She’s just another little kid who’s life has been damaged by tragedy in a world where untold millions suffer equal and even worse traumas yet [...]

Tiger Airways - disabled unfriendly.

Tiger Airways are in hot water. Despite having written permission from the company to take their disabled daughter on a flight, she was refused permission to board! to read the level of humiliation the girl received, read the news story. The family has now lost around $15,000 in fares and accomodation costs and their holiday [...]

Dentists… yuck.

Hate them or loathe them… you just can’t like them. So as mentioned as while ago… we’re *all* off for a bit of torture. I know I need fillings but I hope he’s just do an asessment and get me back after Xmas. If we can postpone the awful day when the drill bites for [...]

Almost there, we’re almost there…

So we’re halfway through the lighting up process. I’m very slowly getting to the stage of achieving my real aim… making the house visible from space!
Actually, the house side is looking quite bright already, it’s the ’snowman’ side that’s looking a bit dim. Luckily I still have two packing cases full of lights to [...]

Superstition - who believes?

My old man was just ruminating on how on earth he and my mother managed to stay married and trouble free for so long.
He said he’s not superstitious… but when you consider they were married in green… on a Friday… and from a house numbered thirteen… you have be a *little* concerned… but they’ve done [...]

Ho, ho, home…

Spent half the day today trying to put up Xmas lights… in 35ºC tempoeratures and high humidity. I wonder sometimes just why I’m so stupid. Still… have I finished?
Hell no. I have a load more to do. Trouble is I can’t find the power boards… or extension leads… or spare bulbs. Gee I’m good at [...]

Pauline a pollie again?

Looks like the bane of the Libs, Pauline Hanson, has flagged her return to politics as an Independent senate member.
Bearing in mind her outspoken views on a wide range of other topics, I think we can expect a tirade of cricisicm of the Australian (and other) Moslems, Lebanese, Chinese, Vietnamese… and any other ‘ese’ she [...]

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