Not again?

Just discovered the ‘Archive’ section of the site is no longer working.
I reported it to the host service support section in case it’s a database problem, but I know the posts are there because I can get at them via the management page. But of course I want them onsite.
Currently we can’t even get to [...]

Trolleyholic?

I was relating my tale of dislike for the new shopping centre to my father and telling him I’d bought a shopping trolley bag thingy so that I could walk to the local shops to buy day-to-day necessities. He suggested that in keeping with my ’shopaholic’ tendencies I ought to rename myself under the new [...]

Rouse Hill Shopping Village

Ok, as I said earlier, The New Rouse Hill shopping village (yes it really *is* called that) has opened up for business and we went over today to have a look around.
First impressions? I don’t like it. Not because it isn’t finished, or because it hasn’t enough shops. Not because it’s crowded or expensive. Mainly [...]

Birthday Pressies

Got the wife’s present sorted out eventually. We went into the jewellers in the mall and they took out 6 links. It now fits, and I think looks, beautiful. Well so does she which makes it all ok either way
On the way through the shopping mall I passed a little watch repairers and [...]

The Town Centre

The Rouse Hill Town Centre opened it’s doors last Tuesday. I was so impressed I’ve not yet been for a visit.
I was told it was very impressive and ‘high tech’ so when we go I’ll be taking a camera to publish a few pics of the insides. The outside is a bit iffy… only half [...]

Yesterday

Strange sort of day yesterday. Spent the morning at a meeting which lasted from 10:00 a.m. til 1:00 p.m. though it was fairly productive in its own way so was worth going to.
Then home for an hour and off for the kids. The school broke up for the holidays yesterday for two weeks, which suits [...]

The shopaholic strikes again!

After my exertions in the gym this morning it was almost pleasant to go for a walk around the local Aldi supermarket to pick up a few bits and pieces. Nothing major, other than a new set of scales with some sort of ’super device’ that will record weights and body changes for the entire [...]

It’s all go.

Another one of ‘those’ weekends coming up. There’s a public holiday on Monday so you might expect us to have some free time to relax a bit and catch up on stuff. Fat chance!
Both kids are going rock climbing with Guides tonight. They need parents to help belay the other kids… so both the wife [...]

No cake for me?

Youngest daughters birthday today… she’s just 8. She had her party last Saturday at the skating rink with 20 friends and seemed to enjoy it. Today was far quieter but we did get her a cake.
The cake was a really light almost frothy vanilla sponge with layers of caramel fudge and cream covered in more [...]

Sally goes away home…

After nearly 20 years spent growing up in front of the camera, Australia’s sweetheart, Kate Ritchie, has decided to hang up her bikini and leave both ‘Sally Fletcher’ and ‘Summer Bay’ behind her. Even tho I’ve not watched the show for years her image has always been the one used in the advertising and it’s [...]

Horizontal Crescent Moon

Well ok this one *isn’t* quite as horizontal as the one we saw was, but it’s damn close!!

This one was supplied by a friend in the AO forum. It was taken up on the Gold Coast… the lights are on the highway. Ours was also far lower on the horizon and so appeared far bigger [...]

Oh Bother.

We’ve just been informed by the weather bureau that NSW could be hit with up to 100 severe storms this summer… each with devastating force. Bit of a worry this.
We’ve seen some really heavy storms hereabouts before of course some with driving hailstones as large as tennis balls and they really aren’t anything to look [...]

My local Doctor.

He’s a nice guy… but has the tendency to rabbit a bit. Today I dropped in at 12:00 right on time for my appointment. By the time he finally got round to see me and I’d got away with the script clutched in my sweaty little palm… it was 1:20 p.m.
He did much the same [...]

Might be a quiet Xmas after all.

Looks like my mother and father won’t be arriving this year after all. We’ve got kinda used to them coming over for Xmas and then staying most of the next six months, but it looks like last year *was* the last year.
My father is getting concerned about both my mothers and his physical condition (both [...]

Vale Marcel Marceau

At age 84 the man who was possibly *the* best known mime artist around the world has finally died.

Marcel lost his father to the invading German forces in WWII and joined first the resistance and then the Free French Army. It wasn’t until 1946 that he finally began to study acting and mime but by [...]

Changed the theme… again.

In an attempt to get the RSS feed working with minimal effort… I changed the theme to see if this will do it all for me automatically
Will check in Bloglines and see if it appears… the last theme/update seemed to kill it.
Edit:
And back again… didn’t work and I didn’t like the [...]

Oops wrong Brady Bunch!

Reading in the papers this morning about some supposed lesbian antics going on between those whiter than white soap opera sisters Marcia and Jan Brady, (Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb). Well the story is a non-event since who really cares whether it’s true or not.
What got me laughing was that the report shows this picture [...]

Hello… I lost a day!

No idea what happened to yesterday. Maybe I’ve just been spending so long at the gym that I’m losing all sense of time… ok losing all sense.
I *did* manage to get out and buy a few pressies for the youngest who’s birthday is in a few days. And I also managed to get fillers for [...]

I must be rattling!

Went to the docs today because of my arthritis, but more especially my bronchitis. Of course, he gave me anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, and a puffer. Might not sound so bad but of course there’s all the *other* stuff I knock back as well!
I have 2 calcium tablets, just in case. The mother has osteoporosis so I’m [...]