I don’t much like reading the paper these days. It’s depressing to read about thousands of useful idiots marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to stop the ‘genocide’ in Gaza. For those who may have forgotten, on 7th October 2023 terrorists from Hamas crossed from Gaza into Israel to attack civilians, raping, torturing, murdering, and…
So. Erin Patterson has been convicted of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. She prepared a meal of beef wellington which she served to four elderly people – her parents in law, and her mother-in-law’s sister and her husband. The meal contained death cap mushrooms leading to three painful deaths. Gail…
We’ve had another huge case of a grown man sexually assaulting toddlers at multiple child care centres, this time in Victoria. Joshua Brown has been charged with 70 offences – and 1200 kids are being tested for infectious diseases. Imagine how the parents must feel, having left their children in facilities which are supposed to…
The big news over the last couple of weeks is Israel’s attack on Iran, resulting in tit for tat drone and missile strikes between the two countries. Which was followed by the American attack on Iran’s three biggest nuclear facilities. Of course, lots of people are doubling down on President Donald Trump for authorizing the…
Quite a few years ago I accompanied Peter on a business trip which required him and a few colleagues to visit Belgium before moving on to the Netherlands. We stayed overnight in a hotel in Brussels with the intention of catching a plane to Amsterdam the next day. It takes about 55 minutes, one of…
It’s coming on to 18 years since we moved from Victoria to Hervey Bay. Peter was having some medical problems and a doctor told him to take a couple of weeks off, get away from winter in Melbourne and go and lie on a beach somewhere. We did that. The beach was Brampton Island off…
It has been three weeks now since the Australian federal election where the Labor party won in a landslide. Since then the media has been full of finger-pointing, navel gazing, and blame attribution. There have been some thoughtful articles about what went wrong but the conservative side of politics has now disintegrated into an unseemly…
I am absolutely delighted to announce that after nearly eight months of a house in turmoil our renovations are pretty much finished. I never thought I’d be pleased to be able to do some vacuum cleaning but I was. Despite the tradies’ best efforts to keep the dust and fragments outside it’s sneaky stuff and…
The federal election is on today – 3rd May 2025. But I’ve had lots to say about what’s important to us and who we’ll be voting for. I fear the result will not be what we want but time will tell. All I can say is that at our age we’re starting to be able…
Today is Anzac Day, when we in Australia pay respect to all those who served in Australia’s wars – or should I say, the wars where Australians joined in to support others. World War II was the only conflict where Australia was directly threatened. 25th April is the day in 1915 when Australian and New…