Three score years and ten
Age, they say, is just a number. But some numbers are more important than others. I suppose seventy is one of them. Three score years and ten used to be the measure of a good life. To be sure, lots … Continued
First Tuesday in November…
This year keeps giving us strange, history-making spectacles. Last month we saw the grand final of the Australian Football League held somewhere OTHER than the Melbourne Cricket Ground in (you guessed it) Melbourne for the first time ever. Covid-19 had … Continued
A time of transition
Since this is 2020, the year of living very dangerously, this time of transition, marked by Hallowe’en and the night of the full moon, also includes an election.
The world’s most successful scam
Printers. They’ve become almost essential. Certainly, many companies are encouraging us to receive documents such as statements and receipts online. Which means we have to use our own paper and ink to print said document to save as a hard … Continued
European nostalgia
While the world is going mad and we can’t go anywhere outside Australia, it doesn’t hurt to reflect on good times in the past. Here are a few pictures taken in Europe in better times. I expect we won’t be … Continued
A walk on the beach
We went for a walk on the beach on Friday morning. It hasn’t happened as often as it should, I guess – but then, we’ve been busy in the garden, moving a mountain of mulch, painting, repairing edging, pulling out … Continued
We surely live in interesting times
It has been a momentous week in the world. Events in the USA are always of interest to those of us lucky enough to live in the “West” as the November presidential election looms. The American people or the electoral … Continued
A Western Australian spring
Western Australia’s wildflowers
Spring memories
Spring might be a bit of a fizzer up here in sub-tropical Queensland but that’s not true all over the country. After all, Australia is a continent as well as a country, and it covers quite a few degrees of … Continued
In spite of everything, spring has sprung
Whatever might be happening for the denizens of this planet, it carries on regardless, waltzing its way with its partner, the Moon, around the Sun. As the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun’s heat, the Southern Hemisphere leans in … Continued