More on the Epipen and the near miss.

As I said in one of the comments, one of my friends suggested I get an Epipen *now* because there may be no time to think if this happens again.
I rang the doctor first thing and went round straight away. After *again* thanking her for saving me, I explained what Sue had said and of [...]

Ferry Disaster

After the adventures of the past couple of days everything else seems a little passe now!
Things that wer important seem to have drifted to the back of my priority list but nothing has surfaced yet to take it’s place. I suppose he shock hasn’t worn off yet… I’m still not 100% recovered… so maybe I’ll [...]

Anaphylaxis… me ‘near death’ experience.

So there I was… really gung ho about clearing up the garden. Yesterdays task was to trim the Jasmine and get it under control so it stops attempting to strangle us as we pass it. I was merrily chopping away at it with a pair of shears… when I got stung by a paper wasp [...]

Cane Toads Rule!

A monster cane toad has been found up in the Northern Territory… a male one at that! Mosly it’s the females that are huge, but this one is a monster… nearly 20.5 cms long.

It was described by the people who caught it as being the size of a small dog. It’s a pity they are [...]

Hicks travesty show trial begins.

David Hicks appeared in court and pleaded guilty to aiding terrorism.
The show trial was the culmination of years of torture, illegal incarceration and political machinations designed solely to find him guilty of… something.
In fact David had little choice but to plead guilty. The charges were formulated and made retrospective *exactly so they *would* cover things [...]

Earth Hour.

This is something for everyone… spread the word… make it a global campaign. E-mail it to all your friends… tell people in work… tell everyone!!
Earth Hour
The idea is simple.. switch off your house lights (or business lights) for one hour on 31st March 2007 (next Saturday night) to save fuel etc. Join the fight… [...]

I like gardening.

Spent the morning in the garden hacking, pulling, weeding, chopping and the like… and this is on just one small part of the garden… just outside the front door.
At the moment I’m in the mood for a tidy… so I decided I would start at the front, work over the side, the pool area and [...]

Cilla Black… not too shabby

I’ve been listening to a local radio station called 2CH which specialises in playing *really* golden oldies… Sinatra, Crosby and the like. This is mainly because of the oldies who like that sort of stuff, but also ‘cos I actually like a lot of it myself.

However, a part of their music mix is derived from [...]

Talking of kids…

As said the kids went off to a Guide Camp for the weekend and a good time was had by both as far as we can tell. Into bed at midnight first night… 3:00 a.m. on the second… geez!
Loads of fun falling in lakes, doing archery, sliding across valleys on flying foxes and sitting around [...]

Ahhh for a day off.

Had a really quiet time over the weekend all in all. Despite doing a load of stuff… it seems not having the kids there to stress the wife out made it easier all round. Without them for her to shout at peace reigned
We did a lot of gardening. We bought replacement pot, mandarin [...]

And Sorbitol is… ?

Apart from excessive sorbitol being a really good laxitive… ooer… it is apparantly a carbohydrate (you live and learn!!)!
Now I’m asking myself if I’m allowed to eat the damn Apple Spice treats or not? I’m supposed to be on a low-carb diet and chowing down on something that’s 98% carbs seems a little self indulgent.
True [...]

Fisherman’s Friends

I used to live on Fisherman’s Friends. That hot searing taste of peppermint and menthol really used to clear my sinuses when I had a cold… strangely a lot of people don’t like them… ah well… their loss
Anyway, they are largely made up of sugar so are a bit of a no-no on [...]

More on the garbo’s damage.

Had a knock on the door this morning and outside was Brett Mirow from J. J. Richards & Sons who handle the waste management for the local council.
We had a chat about the problem with the garbo breaking the pot… and that he’d not bothered to apologise or something… and that I was a little [...]

Opinion? Where?

Yet again I realise I’ve all bar abandoned commenting on the social machinations of the world at large to concentrate on the micro-behaviours of my family and myself.
No doubt there’ve been all sorts of issues out there worthy of comment in here… but lately I’ve been posting them in Australian Opinion to make sure the [...]

The saga of the teeth.

Today we are hoping we’ll see the final instalment of the saga of the old man’s teeth.
He only has a filling today… we think… maybe two (?) but either way it’ll be good to see the end of it. He says he feels really odd when he’s chewing now. With so many teeth gone the [...]

Kids off to camp!

Kids are off to camp this weekend with the Girl Guides… no idea where Brownsea Island is but we’re told it’s out of range of mobile phones… so we won’t be getting frantic calls for assistance from the daughter
What we’re going to do with ourselves tomorrow I don’t know… but I bet it’ll [...]

And for afters…

While I was in the mood yesterday I also knocked up a rhubarb and apple crumble. Or started to. As per usual nothing went right and when I went to sort out the crumble mix after stewing the rhubarb and chopping the apples… I discovered I’d run out of butter!!
By the time I’d gone out [...]

Steak and yukky.

I decided I’d make a nice steak and kidney pudding. Not made one in years but thought it might be nice for a change. I’d bought the gear a few days ago so got into making it yesterday morning.
All was going well until I opened the sealed packs of kidney… and discovered the use-by date [...]

Back on my feet again

After two days off I was out again this morning walking round the estate
Damn hard to get back into it when I’d rather be doing anything but… but I went anyway. The dogs seemed to enjoy themselves… other than both of them now lying flat out gasping for breath.

Bloody garbage men

A few months ago I wrote of having to move our little potted orange tree away from the post box because the postie was having problems negotiating his moped between it and the postbox.
I moved it to the bottom of the drive… alongside a tree.
A couple of weeks ago the binmen dropped the bin on [...]

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