Hicks anniversary time draws near.

Nothing pleasurable sadly… it’s almost 6 years since David Hicks was illegally detained by the US forces in Afghanistan.
Australia’s shame continues.

Peace? Love? Who needs it?

One of the chief Australian mufti’s, Sheik Feiz Mohammed, has had children distributing DVD’s in mosque car parks. On the DVD’s he can be heard calling people, especially children, to die for Allah. he can also be heard calling Jews pigs. Charming person eh? For media coverage try here.
Maybe it’s me, but it seems to [...]

The McNaught Comet.

The McNaught comet has been visible in the night sky for the last few days and a damn good view it was too. It looked like a little orange ball in the sky but was enhanced into a slightly *less* little orange ball by using binoculars.
We’ll be out looking again tonight… it shows up on [...]

Victorian bushfires

Spare a thought for Victoria. Already over a million hectares of bush burned out with no sign of rain to douse the flames.
The heat is appalling, the damage to property escalating, the wildlife killed and/or maimed is beyond calculation and the efects on the environment catastrophic.
To add to the misery, the fires burned out a [...]

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to work we go…

And off she went!
The alarm went off at 5:30 a.m. and up we got. The wife showered, dressed, poofied up her hair, added make up and a twisted pearl necklace, had breakfast… and went off to catch the bus to her new job.
The bus stop is the other side of the park that’s in front [...]

Australian Opinion forums rebuilt

Well ok I finally got around to sorting out the Australian Opinion forum. It had crossed my mind to abandon it as a distinct entity and redirect DNS calls here to the blog, but I relented and it’s up and running. It was a pain to do it, and I’m hoping I don’t have to [...]

More revenge hanging in Iraq

Not sure what else you’d call it. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bander were both hanged in Iraq yesterday in typically gruesome and incompetent fashion. In fact, so badly handled was it that Barzan (Saddam Hussein’s younger half-brother and and former intelligence chief) was decapitated by the force of the drop.
I’m not sure what [...]

Where’ve I been?

So. Time moves fast when you’re having fun… or not.
I came out of hospital feeling groggy as you’d expect so that took care of the 11th… and then went off next morning to the dentist for a filling… so more anaesthetics… and the wife insisted we walk over *and* back… which pretty much took care [...]

Many thanks to the Phantom!

My friend the The Phantom Staple Remover has kindly braved the cold wet weather in the UK and forwarded all the posts missing because of the server crash…Â and for that we say a *very* appreciative thank you.
I’ll have a quick read/edit (where appropriate) and get them uploaded.

Well… I’m still here! :)

So… let’s see… to add to the Sleep Apnoea, ADHD and the rest… I now have Diverticulitis to add to the list. We’re not sure about the Coeliac disease and the gluten intolerance… we’ll find out in a week or three when I go back for the results.
Still… in some ways it’s good to know [...]

Another quiet day

Off later on to get ’scoped’ from both ends… ewww… just the thought is enough to make me want to change my mind! What’s more the lack of dinner last night and breakfast this morning is causing hypoglycaemia so I’m already a bit wobbly… and without even a glass of water to look forward to [...]

English cricket again… yawn

England lost to Australia in the 20/20 version of the game last night by a world record margin What else is there to say.
The one day series starts at the MCG on Friday… I wonder if anyone will bother turning up to watch?

TomTom GPS navigation.

Bought a TomTom GO500 a year ago and along with almost everything else electrical in the house, it ‘died’ a few weeks ago. As it’s still under warranty we took it back to be fixed.
Got a call yesterday to say it was ready but when we went to get it they’d actually replaced it with [...]

Time adjusted.

Not sure how or why it happened but I just realised the times for all the posts I’ve made with this template have been using the wrong time… in fact about 11 hours behind! I think it must have been set to UST/GMT.
Anyway - I changed it to show the correct time… I think… which [...]

The 12 days of Xmas

Not sure when the 12 days of Xmas ended… if they have… but I’m finally getting the last of the outside decorations down and boxed ready to be dragged out again in a few months to be reused… well those that still work then will be used - maybe.
Right now of course I’m not 100% [...]

Journalism… gawd… words fail me.

Yesterday a little girl in France watched horrified as a helicopter dropped from the sky and killed her parents as they walked outside a restaurant in the Carmargue.
Now that tale in itself is horrible enough to raise the sympathies of anyone who reads it… so *why* did the journalists at news.com decide to go for [...]

Desert Storm - Jan 1991

Just a reminder that it was around this time in 1991 that the decisions were being made to attack Iraq to force them out of their occupation of Kuwait. I’ve not been to Kuwait and know very little about it, but I wonder if ‘democracy and the rule of law’ was imposed *there* as a [...]

Butterflies.

Bearing in mind how brightly coloured and slow moving lots of them are it’s amazing they’ve managed to survive and flourish as species. Ok some may be poisonous… but many aren’t. Besides, surely after all these millions of years something would have developed an immunity to them and wiped them out?
I’m glad they haven’t died [...]

I have learned…

I have learned that I’m too old to drink half pints of Muscat… and then expect to be able to play table-tennis afterwards. I’m not very good to begin with and the effects of the alcohol make it even harder.
Actually, in retrospect, I think it was perhaps a little silly to buy a 2 litres [...]

Back to the grind.

The wife’s finally gone back to work this morning. She has to close off things she’s had on the go with Qantas ready for her move at the end of next week and there’s a possibility she’ll have to ‘hand over’ to a new person as well… if they can find anyone of course.
It’s been [...]

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