While I suppose we all know we’re not as young as we used to be, there are times when that fact is underlined with a few exclamation marks added. This has been one of those times. Pete and I decided several weeks before Christmas that we would replace our adjustable beds, the sort which can…
Well, the Queensland Government has removed all restrictions on folks entering Queensland. We were promised that would happen when 90% of the population was vaccinated. That figure has been reached. Hopefully we’re inching towards becoming Australians again, instead of being Queenslanders. Mind you, I’m not in a hurry to go interstate. You never know what…
It’s finally release day! The blurb. One hundred years ago the pirate ship Crimson Lady terrorized the space lanes, then she disappeared without a trace, leaving behind nothing but tall tales and legends. Until Tara Wyndham finds an artifact from the lost ship Rys Kovas made a mistake when he left Fleet to take over…
Here we are in week one of a new year. To nobody’s great surprise, the omicron variant of covid-19 is spreading like wildfire. But I’m a little bit surprised that the Powers-That-Be did not anticipate the impact on testing centres, both from people being exposed to the disease and from people who are required to…
Hello and welcome to 2022! I’m sure most of us are more than happy to watch 2021 receding in our rear vision mirrors. So… what do Pete and I have to remember about 2021? We have the advantage of living in a small town in Queensland where mask mandates have only just reappeared because of…
The blurb. One hundred years ago the pirate ship Crimson Lady terrorized the space lanes, then she disappeared without a trace, leaving behind nothing but tall tales and legends. Until Tara Wyndham finds an artifact from the lost ship Rys Kovas made a mistake when he left Fleet to take over his uncle’s tourist business….
There’s always a horror story some time around Christmas – plane crashes, strikes and the like. But nothing quite so awful as the events in Devonport, Tasmania, where five kids attending an end-of-school windup party died in a freak accident, others are in hospital, some in critical danger. They were in a jumping castle which…
The news can be depressing, can’t it? If it’s not covid, it’s all about personal freedoms being taken away. There are border police in our own country preventing us from moving from one state to another. WA’s dictator would have done the secessionists proud. He’s given up a test match – an ASHES test match…
Today I’m as tired of politics and covid as everybody else. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing a bit more than a zephyr, less than a howling gale. The grass is growing as we watch and the air is humid. Welcome to a Queensland summer with a La Niña thrown in. La Niña…
It’s not about a dragon, though. It’s about that virus. Just as we were all starting hope that after pretty nearly two full years covid-19 would fade into just another ‘flu, it has raised the middle finger and laughed. Europe is facing a new spike in infections and deaths and there’s an even more virulent…