Still on holiday.

Just letting the reguars know all is well here and we’re enjoying the quiet of the holiday season. We’ve not been doing much other than relax but it’s such a novelty to be able to do it we aren’t bored at all.
The regular routines will start to kick back in over the next few days [...]

Happy Christmas Everyone!

We’d like to wish everyone who drops by a *very* happy Christmas and hope the New Year brings all your heart desires.
I’d especially like to thank those dedicated garbage collectors who arrived at 4:00 this morning, for making that extra effort to ensure we were all up early enough to enjoy the whole day including [...]

And so this is Christmas…

And so this is Christmas, and what have we done?
Well today we spent the entire day outside Woolworth’s running a BBQ with other parents raising money for our Senior Guides to go to the International Jamboree in Melbourne 2010. It might seem a bit early to start fundraising for a specific event, but with out [...]

A nice side of Christmas!

Yesterday the eldest daughter and some friends decided they would try to raise some money for ther trip to Melbourne in 2010 to attend an International Girl Guides Jamboree. The method the chose was *busking* at the local town centre!
Despite not having rehearsed much off the went. You can see how pleased they were with [...]

Strictly Magic – yet another site!

One of the reasons I’ve not been very active in here for the last couple of days is that apart from Xmas coming and having the kids home, I’ve been getting on with creating a new forum site aimed at supporting ‘carers’, i.e. those largely unsung heroes who spend their lives caring for a member [...]

And in the UK?

In the UK while mayhem reigns on the streets those guardians of law and order have slapped a $150 fine on a pensioner because someone knocked a cigarette out of his hand!
The ’someone’ who knocked the cigarette out of the hand of Lazaris Michael (76) was a policeman who tackling a shoplifter. Before Mr Michael was [...]

Political Correctness gone mad.

Over here in Australia the law has decided that the characters drawn in the Simpsons cartoons are the equivalent of real people. Someone who was found to have accessed and downloaded drawing showing the chacters engaged in various sexual acts was fined $3000. He appealed and the appeal was denied.
I’ll accept quite happily that *some* [...]

The Magic of Strictly…

New site set up for anyone interested. Not sure if anyone will ever visit it or comment… but it’s there just in case as much as a reminder that despite the doom and gloom pervading the worlds media, people *do* still care about each other!
It’s called “The Magic of Strictly” and it’s purpose will be [...]

So much could be said…

There’s so much that could be said but through my brother, my father has requested not. Cryptic or not, so long as some of us know what I’m on about that’ll do.
Just wanted to say thanks… and well done… to my brother.
I’ve been feeling the tears welling up for the past hour or so and there’s [...]

For United Kingdom read ‘Police State’.

Hot on the heels of the unprecedented arrest of a Damian Green, a Member of Parliament, and the police raid on his Parliamentary office comes news of the imminent arrival of ID’s for every person on UK soil and a threat of *arrest* if ID is *not* presented on demand by the police!!
This move not seen [...]

Takes all sorts…

That ancient astronomer Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, aka just Patrick Moore is one of that odd breed of eccentrics Britain seems to throw up from time to time.
One of his ‘funnies’ was a 1976 jape when he announced on BBC Radio that at exactly 9:47 a.m. next morning the planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter [...]

You have to laugh…

Yet another letter of the ‘Nigerian Scam’ type but it is *so* ridiculous I just had to share it… I might keep the name change tho!! Pasted in exactly as I received it:
Dear Compliment of season
Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for [...]

Happy birthday mouse!

Sometime in the next few days the world will be celebrating the 40th birthday of Doug Englebart’s ubiquitous pointing device, so common to all computer users… the mouse!!
I’ve never been sure whether the plural of this kind of mouse is mice or mouses but it may not matter soon since there are claims that the [...]

Lucky Australia!

Looks like the skies will be smiling at us tonight. The configuration of Venus and Jupiter along with a crescent moon means we’ll get a smiley face in the heavens tonight!!
Europe won;t see it because the moon will have moved position by the time it gets around to them, and the US will [...]

Customer Service is out!

I rang Customer Service at one of the local Shopping Malls (Castle Towers). The response was “I’m sorry, Customer Service is out today… please leave a message after the tone”.
This conjured up all sorts of images in my mind… most of them bizarre.
Still, nice to know that customers are so far down the food chain [...]

On a theme…

This little offering is entitled “Burying the Truth” and, again, is a YouTube ’short’ about Schapelle Corby and the way the media have portrayed her. Her major problem was the prima facie case that she was in possession of the drugs therefore the onus was upon her to prove she had nothing to do with [...]

Saya Tidak Bersalah!

Saya Tidak Bersalah is the name of a song by Tara Hack about Schapelle Corby and her imprisonment in Bali on charges of drug smuggling. The words are the last Schapelle spoke in court before the judges handed down their totally over the top sentence of twenty years
I cannot admit to a crime I did [...]

Thanks for all the fish…

Here’s a jolly little site for some pre-Xmas fun. It gives you an indication of when it thinks you are likely to shuffle off the mortal coil.
It’s called “Death Clock” and when I entered my details it told me I should have carcked it in 2003… oh good thanks for that don’t call me I’ll [...]