Same old ‘Olympic hoo-ha’ all over again.

Each time the Olympic Games appears on the horizon people climb on the bandwagon to use the publicity of the games to highlight their own special causes.
In the case of Tibet of course there is *real* reason to protest regardless of the even and one can’t complain about the efforts being made to bring the [...]

Gone, gonnie gone gone…*

Yup, After it’s months of slow decay at the front of the house the old car has finally been removed.
A couple of guys in a truck turned up to collect her and drag her onto the back of a wagon… strangely enough alongside a newer version of the same model.
In return for the old bus [...]

Last of the wildlife for 2008?

Just found this ‘green moth’ hanging on the base of the screen door. As usual I’ve no idea what the thing’s name is but it’s quite attractive nonetheless. It has a very ‘verdigris’ look about it which was quite attractive.

Probably this will represent the last of the wildlife for this year. We still see see [...]

Sometimes you just have to admit defeat.

Despite several attempts to find someone to repair the Magna left behind by the daughter and son-in-law when they left I’ve finally had to admit defeat. I’ve organised for a wrecker to come tomorrow to collect the thing and crush it.
It’ll be a wrench to see it finally go because apart from a small issue [...]

Spiderwick Chronicles – film 2008

Continuing on this theme of the daughters birthday, we come to the film we saw which was ‘The Spider Wick Chronicles’.
I’ve not read the books, and haven;t seen any trailers for the films… so knew nothing of the plot and therefore what we were letting ourselves in for. Once we’d seen the film and left [...]

Reading Cinemas – Rouse Hill (again).

Having had lunch at the The Black Stump we set off to the picture house. Since the place was next door to the restaurant it wasn’t hard to find and in we trooped.
The cinema is one of those owned by the Reading Cinema Group. Whether this is pronounced ‘redding’ or ‘reading’ (as in reading a [...]

Yesterday – not too shabby?

The eldest daughter turned 12 yesterday and instead of the usual party we suggested it might be nice for just the four of us to go out for a change.
We’d intended to go down to Canberra for the weekend but we’ll leave that for later in the year perhaps.
Instead we let her choose her gifts [...]

The Black Stump – Rouse Hill

As mentioned the daughter told us she’d like to go out for a meal as part of her birthday outing and for lunch she wanted to visit a branch of one of what used to be an iconic Australian restaurant chain called ‘The Black Stump’ which we’ve seen in other places but never been to [...]

Marathon task.

My younger brother is living proof that insanity (literally) runs in our family. Despite reaching his half-century he is still amazingly fit regularly doing crazy things like triathlons, iron man competitions and the like.
Yesterday he was supposed to be running a marathon but we’ve not heard from him yet so I’ve no news about *if* [...]

More bureaucratic madness.

The sister sent me this clipping out of the Daily Mirror from the 8th March 2008. You have to wonder what goes on in the minds of some of these bureaucrats.

Council orders pensioners to take down fence it put up
A BARMY council has ordered an elderly couple to tear down a fence it put up [...]

Happy Birthday Lulu.

The eldest daughter (Lulu) is twelve today. So happy birthday to her. She’s brightened up my life in buckets and I don’t know what we’d do without her.
Clever, beautiful, talented. What more could a parent ask… well ok it would be nice if she was rush as well but that might come in [...]

Me and my big sis sometime last century.

Here’s a picture of me and my big sis… when we were neither of us higher than a grasshoppers knee!

Gawd…. sad… innit??
Anyone who’d like a copy… or the original negative should contact “Happy Snaps”, 4 doors from the GPO, Fleet Street, Torquay. Wow… a half century ago they had to send the film [...]

I ought to load the gallery.

Here’s a little gem from 6 years ago… the youngest celebrating her second birthday in her high chair!

You might ask why she is giving the cake such an old fashioned look? Maybe she was pre-warned of my skills as a pâtissier? She’s not changed much… except maybe her hair is a little longer.
I [...]

What the…. ?

Who is this handsome dashing debonair devil-may-care young gadabout proudly displaying his hirsute upper lip? Moi? Well of course!! And can that really be ‘dogsbody’ on the other side of the seat?? Well I can see why I fancied her… but what the hell did she see in me? And why was Auntie Muriel sitting [...]

On a theme

Just been watching some classic Captain Pugwash also sent over by the old man. This is the DVD the Sunday Times gave away free on 20th January 2008 and included the entire series of 30 ’shorts produced during the 1970’s.
Magic stuff!!

More blasts from the past.

The old man has been sending over stuff he’s found in my dear departed Aunt’s papers. Amongst the nuggets was a postcard we’d sent her just after we’d moved to London. There is nothing interesting in what we wrote, tho the card is interesting in itself being a picture of The Prince and (then) Princess [...]

More insanity in the UK

In the UK a villain has been apprehended for his heinous crime. He has been fined $500 and his criminal record will stay with him for years to come.
This depraved lawbreaker overfilled his wheelie bin by a massive 8 centimetres. How disgusting!!
Even though his bins are only emptied once every two weeks I don’t know [...]

Back again!

Yet again my back is killing me and yesterday and I was reduced to walking with a stick for the first time! I didn’t even do that while the toe was broken. In fact if this keeps up I’ll be going to the docs and ask him to sign a form for me to get [...]

Never rains…

Been raining again. I commented to my eldest daughter just yesterday that it’s probably rained more over the past few months than at any other time in her entire life. It has hardly stopped in 6 months! Good for the dams yes… but can get on the nerves a bit.
One way it ‘irritates’ is when [...]

The loose moose!

You might remember a few weeks back me rambling on about a mouse the cat had brought in and released. The cat caught it once more, but after being scolded by the visitors it released the mouse to roam free again in the house… seemingly with a charmed life as from then on neither we [...]

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