Powerball jackpot to hit $50 million

This morning I was bemoaning the fact that I forgot to enter the Powerball Lottery this week when the Jackpot stood at a record AU$40 million. Today I’m pleased because it didn’t go off so I get another chance next Thursday when the Jackpot will stand at $50,000,000 can you *imagine* winning that?!?
Personally [...]

Assault by hedghog.

A New Zealand man has been convicted of assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog. No idea why but William Singalargh, aged 27 was convicted of assault and offensive behaviour after he threw the hedgehog at a 15 year old boy who was returning home.
The animal struck the youth on the hip and some of the [...]

Pink Floyd revisited

Just been listening to some early (very early!) Pink Floyd music from 1967 and it honestly sent shivers down my spine. The two most obviously ‘popular’ are Arnold Layne and See Emily Play which are just amazingly ‘complete’ as songs, not least because they came from the mind of that poor twisted soul, the late [...]

Alzheimer’s Test?

I lifted this from the pages of the UK Daily Mail and it purports to be a ‘test’ anyone can take to determine if they have Alzheimer’s Disease. Basically you answer the questions below and if you say yes to one or more… go talk to your doctor..

Well that’s all very well and good… but [...]

Surely it can’t just be me?

Have a look at this pasta sauce lid. Tell me if you notice anything a little ‘odd’ about it.

Not obvious yet?
Ok… have a look at the wording two lines under the ‘Fresh Sauce’ bit. See it now?
I’ll write it out so it’s clearer…
CAUTION: CONTAINER BECOMES HOT WHEN HEATED. HANDLE WITH CARE
Maybe it’s just me but [...]

Victory!! One in the eye for Jodie Powers!!

Some of you may remember that this blog has always been a constant supporter of Schapelle Corby. However Jodie Powers (below right), a ‘friend’ of Schapelle’s sister Mercedes, went on air in a TV program (Today Tonight) run by the Seven Network and said some pretty nasty things about the entire family.
Understandably, with her sister [...]

Vale Beryl Cook

Sad news today about the passing of the highly regarded yet still under rated artist Beryl Cook who died qietly last night aged 81.
Beryl’s pictures had a quite unmistakeable style featuring ‘fat ladies’ and otherwise ’rounded’ characters which brought to life many a social gathering. She didn’t really do much painting before the age of [...]

Happy Birthday Dad!!

The old man touched 87 today… lord knows how but he’s there all the same!!
Still hoping you’ll make it out for Xmas but I appreciate it might be a bit difficult. As I said in the family forum… your cards are sitting next to me as I type. The wife has been nagging [...]

Singing Budgie bans big birthday bash.

On the subject of ‘entertainers’, we’d like to say happy birthday to Australian singer Kylie Minogue (a.k.a. the singing budgie) who has reached the ripe old age of 40. Bearing in mind the scare she had recently with developing breast cancer she will no doubt be relieved that she reached this anniversary without further problems. [...]

Burley Shirley treated early!

News today that Dame Shirley Bassey is in hospital recovering from emergency surgery after experiencing stomach pains. Details are sketchy, obviously, but there is no suggestion at present that the 71 year old singing legend will not recover quickly.

Shirley Bassey has been one of the UK’s best loved entertainers for the last half century with [...]

Hope for the future.

If only as a distraction from the turmoil back here on Earth, the news that the Phoenix Mars Lander had made it down to the planets surface in one functioning piece is cause for celebration!
Sadly not equipped to roam as previous lander’s, it will nonetheless conduct experiments and send back valuable information - it might [...]

Travel the world, meet new people, & kill them.

Bizarre story surfacing over in Australia suggesting our soldiers in Afghanistan are being laughed at by others of the coalition forces because they take part in a highly limited number of front line missions in which they actively engage ‘the enemy’.
Whether these allegations are true or not I have no way of knowing. However, if [...]

On the road again.

Seven years after being impounded by police, the orange and white Volkswagen Kombi driven by Peter Falconio when he was killed and his girlfriend abducted has been ‘released’. As crucial evidence, it’s been kept under cover all this time but is now out on the compound with crashed and stolen vehicles waiting a decision by [...]

It’s so much worse when you *know*.

Life is full of tragedies. Mostly they pass us by unless you’re personally involved. Millions die all over the world from war, disease, starvation, or plain neglect and we neither know nor care, except on an impersonal; “Oh those poor people… ” sort of feeling. If we’re stirred at all, we send off our donations [...]

All publicity is good publicity!

Suppose you start up a ’social networking’ site as a rival to Facebook and you realise the massive user base they have is sucking all your potential users away depriving you of that wonderful source of advertising income. What would you do to try to increase your membership? Advertise? Quite possibly
Your problem is how, given [...]

Dick Martin dies aged 86.

For those of us of a ‘certain age’ one of the high spots of our young lives was the regular dose of comedy from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’ which was an extremely funny if bizarre US made comedy programme, which in style might be likened to a cross between the Goons and Monty Python!
The show [...]

More dripping!

It’s really time I started a new site to log all the idiotic things councils in the UK (and elsewhere?) do in the guise of upholding the law. Trouble is I’d do nothing all day but fill the site in as the floods of complaints pour in!
The latest in the long line of loonie council [...]

Kids grow up so fast these days!

Following on from the furore about the exploitation of 12 year old girls by using them in sexually explicit photography, we now have the case of a 12 year old girl in Victoria who told a judge that she thinks she is a boy and is being allowed to change her sex!!
Amazing though it seems, [...]

Did the earth move for you Nancy?

Pity this poor couple on May 12th 2008. The girl in the wedding dress has just been married, she steps outside the church to have her photo taken by Wang Qiang and as he takes the snaps there is a distant rumble…
… the distant rumble gets closer then stones fall of the church and [...]

Bill Henson - artist or pervert?

In Sydney yesterday an exhibition of images by acclaimed photographer Bill Henson was raided by police and its opening night was cancelled. The DPP are currently examining the photographs, the events surrounding their being taken, and interviewing all the models concerned, The reason was that the images to be displayed were of ‘underage’ children, as [...]

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