Vale Billy Thorpe

Some of you may ask “Billy Who?” but he isn;t an unknown. Billy was the singer who created one of the best little rock songs ever “Some people I know (think that I’m crazy)” sung by Australians and others around the world for the past 30 years.
He died of a massive heart attack at home [...]

Congratulations again!

The eldest daughter (the one in the UK of course) has just had another baby… a little girl… first grand-daughter in fact!! No idea what the name is yet, the daughter *did* tell me the name she was going to give it but that was months ago and you know what my mind is like.
She [...]

Legal representation not a right?

It would appear from statements tendered to the Federal Court yesterday that citizens of Australia who are in danger abroad have no basis in law to call on their government for aid and assistance. The fact this seems to fly in the face of what has always been seen as fundamental to the entire system [...]

The morning stroll

Getting quite used to this now. Wife gets on bus and I stagger off into the darkness with the two dogs.The kids used to come but they seem to be less inclined to make the effort now preferring to stay curled up under the doona… nice for some!
I was in bed at 8:00 p.m. because [...]

These boots were made for walking.

Can’t find a decent pair of walking boots that’s a reasonable price so make do with buying trainers andwearing them until they fall apart at the seams… which isn’t long usually. The latest pair to be ruined are labelled by Mizumo ‘Wave Creation’ so are probably some generic brand… either way whilst I’ve never heard [...]

Yet another dog day…

The littlies went to a Girl Guides church service today… it’s ‘Thinking Day’ today and the anniversary of the beginning of Scouting/Guiding so there was a parade… I think
Anyway, we drove up Windsor Road on the way and as we drove I saw a small dog on the left resolutely walking along the [...]

Golden oldies

Readers will… or might… recall that last year my folks tried to extend their stay for three months but my other got ‘knocked back’ by DIMAC (Department of Immigration and Citizenship). The old man got through… but the old lady *didn’t*… so they left a little earlier than they’d have liked.
This year the strangest thing [...]

Australian Opinion

Lord that site also takes a load of time!The bandwidth took a beating last month so I upped it… and then got an ‘Exceeded bandwidth limit” again yesterday.
So I checked… and realised with some ebarrassment that I’d been reading the account specs wrongl;y… I have *75* Gigabytes of bandwidth to play with… so raised the [...]

So much to do… so little time!

I’ve spent ages over the last two days rushing around doing sfa which sort of ate into my time for posting. Still… the house is a damn sight cleaner at least… even managed to vac and wash the floor… amazing… I’d forgotten it was brown tile and wasn’t actually *supposed* to be hairy!!

Dog days.

We have two dogs… an insane black Labrador called Snoopy (a.k.a. Stupid), and an old Australian Blue Heeler (Cattle dog) called Kit. Snoopy is only a few years old… 4 I think… can’t be sure as he was huge when we got him. Kit on the other hand is nearly 12 years old… or in [...]

So what’s with the soup?

As many of you will have been bored to tears hearing… I’m on yet another diet. Doing ok so far… but with a long way to go.
One of my problems has been getting an attack of the munchies around the 5:00 p.m. or so… partly because it’s around then I’m getting dinner ready so have [...]

Lordy… days have gone by!

It’s always surprising when time flies by quickly. It really doesn’t seem like 4 days since I last updated the blog.It’s not as if a lot has happened either.
Friday I was still recovering from walking so far on Wednesday… but took the oldies for their medicals anyway. Talking of which… we were in chaos as [...]

Diet… exercise… ewww.

Wandered around today carrying a 5 kilo bag of spuds in the backpack… not a good idea… walked several kilometres in 30 degree temperatures… and now my legs are so stiff I can’t type!
Bearing in mind I’ve lost almost 20 kilos you’d think it might have been fairly easy putting 5 back on… but there [...]

Jody Power vs Schapelle Corby.

Channel Seven unearthed a friend of Mercedes Corby (Schapelle’s sister) who was willing to ‘tell all’ in a paid interview. I missed the first of the two programmes and I almost wish I’d missed the second.
There was very little of value in it, very little relating directly to Schappelle and her fight for freedom, and [...]

Old photos tell tales.

One of the youngsters pulled a box out from under the bed over the weekend. In it she found a pile of old photos we’d kept… as you do.
A couple of them provoked some interest because they were of me around 15 years ago. Dunno about the kids, but I could hardly recognise myself. Confident [...]

Oldies staying on!

The old man has finally decided he wants to stay on with us for another few months so we’ve sent in the applications for a visa extension.
The odd thing about this is that the visa requires a medical to establish if he and my mum are ‘fit to travel’. What’s odd? Well if they are [...]

Grrr…

Doesn’t it *always* happen? I ring the ISP to complain… they say try to downloading a file… and down it comes at 126 kbps… which ain’t too shabby. Ok says they… can’t see any problems… and off they go.
Then it takes ten minutes to load another web page. I still think the wireless ISP is [...]

BigPond ADSL

It’s been raining here for the past two days. Nice for the plants and the flowers… also nice for the dam levels which are rising gently. For my Bigpond ADSL connection tho it’s been a disaster!
No idea why but whenever it rains… the connection dies!! The contract only has a couple of months left but [...]

New Wordpress release available!

Wow. There’s a new version of Wordpress available. I suppose I’ll have to upgrade eventually, but the process seems really tortuous and filled with uncertainty… well that’s how it seems to me anyway.
Pro tem I’ll stick with the version I have (v.2.02) for now. it works, and the new issue might have problems… so don’t [...]

Back on the diet.

So it goes. I’ve lost 15 kilos but I still need to lose another 50 to get somewhere reasonable again. I don’t suppose I’ll get there… but it’s fun trying

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