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…
The international news has been full of two things of late – the final fall of Bashar Al Assad’s despicable regime in Syria and the shooting killing of the CEO of one of America’s largest (for profit) health insurance companies, United Healthcare (UHC). First, the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. He was shot in…
I was a supporter of the #metoo movement when it started. I don’t know too many women who can honestly say they have never been subjected to sexual harassment, whether it be workmen on a building site hootin’ and hollerin’, unwanted advances from a close relative, innuendo in the workplace, right through to domestic violence…
I was going to make this a politics-free post but I’ve found myself stewing about this all week so I’ve gotta say my piece. If you’d rather not, feel free to skip down to the pretty pictures after End of Rant. For the last week or two the media has been full of the Brittany…
How’s it all going on the home front, folks? Another week or so and our garden will be looking better than it has since we moved in. Bushes we should never have planted have been yanked out, trees cut back, vegies seeded, pool cleaned, weeds poisoned. As the ‘stay home’ rules tighten and the weeks…
Around Christmas 2018 Australian news sources were full of articles about the suppression of news about a ‘high profile Australian’ who had been involved in a court case. Since the news was only suppressed in Australia, it didn’t take much investigation to come up with the name Cardinal George Pell. For my non-Australian readers, Pell…
You might recall a few blogs ago I wrote a review for ‘They all love Jack: Busting the Ripper‘ by Bruce Robinson. It’s a dense book, packed with names and details, and I’ve read it again to pick up the details I inevitably missed the first time. I’ve also dwelt on its themes and what…
Once Pelsaert had finished his trial of the conspirators who had been responsible for the deaths of nearly one hundred people on the Abrolhos islands where they had hoped for rescue, he passed sentence. The ring leader, Jeronimus Cornelisz, along with six of his lieutenants, was hanged at the islands. In comparison with what they…