Since 2002, I’ve been writing here about life, the universe, and everything. My interests include genealogy, history, and the arts. More recently, since July 2023 I’ve been writing about my experiences as a below-the-right-knee amputee.
For the most part I “ignore” most Facebook Group and Application invitations. “By agreeing to install this application you agree to share all of your information and those of your friends”.. blah blah blah.. just screams information harvesting to me. But tonight I came across a Facebook Group that actually makes a lot of sense to me. It’s called, “I don’t mind if the Swedes take over Australia“. Think about how good this would be……
“That’s because it’s such a disgusting and filthy place”, was the explanation offered by an inter-state colleague on the phone today, when I mentioned there was a bit of a pollution health warning on the radio this morning. Although I’ve previously thought it might have been the spring clean I did at home on the weekend which led to my current case of hay fever, the news has confirmed my experience is much broader. A…
“Do you remember much about the incident?” I was asked by the detective this afternoon. “Yes I do”, I told him, “as I keep a blog and recorded my memories of the incident in a fair degree of detail”, I added. I know this sounds awfully cryptic, I can’t blog about what happened today, but suffice it to say, it’s good news in response to a fairly traumatic incident which happened in my life a…
I’ve spent a fair bit of the day fighting off a “summer cold”, which apparently is not a cold at all. According to the interweb… a summer cold is… … a popular term for hay fever. Although the symptoms of a “summer cold” may be similar to those of a real cold, the term “summer cold” is a misnomer. Unlike a real cold, it is not caused by a virus but by allergy. It is…
It’s been a day of spring cleaning and re-arranging the furniture. Ever since I arrived back from Europe I’ve been looking at my lounge and living space in a less than glamorous manner. “What’s prompted this?”, my frend Sue asked me on the phone. I guess it’s the realisation deep down that my place hasn’t exactly been the most conducive place for socialising for quite some time. I’ve had a lot of furniture crammed into…
Aside from watching a couple of movies, I didn’t achieve all that much today. The movies I watched, however, were both very good and so I don’t feel like I’ve entirely bummed around doing nothing all the day. The first film I watched was Frost/Nixon. Although I was politically aware from a young age, and remember the news of Richard Nixon’s resignation, I have only a very vague childhood memory of my family watching the…