Whassup blogland?

by | Apr 14, 2018 | 6 comments

Greetings to all my readers in blogland. Don’t we live in interesting times? Syria is almost completely reduced to rubble. Indonesia is burning. The UK is taking their ball and going home, leaving Europe to wonder what it’s done to offend them. The United...

Dear hacker

by | Apr 7, 2018 | 2 comments

Almost every second day, I receive a notification that I’ve been temporarily locked out of my website for security reasons. It seems there are people trying to break into the site for their own nefarious purposes. Thank goodness my tricky password (which I can...

Democracy

by | Mar 20, 2018 | 2 comments

Last Saturday was Election Day for our state, to determine which party would govern for the next three to four years.  Congratulations to the winners and commiserations to the losers. Nearly half of my state are now celebrating in the glow of long-hoped for victory....

An Evening with Mr Smith

by | Mar 10, 2018 | 4 comments

This week was Writers’ Week in Adelaide, South Australia; one of the many festival activities happening in Mad March. The city is visited by many national and international authors and all the literary buffs come out to play. I joined in the celebrations by...

My 2 cents worth

by | Mar 3, 2018 | 12 comments

  We’re living in a world where people who appreciate science and education are called “elitists”. This means their advice –  based on research, experimentation, application and study – can be ignored. After all, everyone knows that...

A night out

by | Feb 24, 2018 | 0 comments

The other night the Old Boy, the Son and Heir and I, went to see a play. We’d arranged special seating, due to me being in a wheelchair, but it wasn’t suitable. We were moved to another section, where one lady sat in the wheelchair section, on an ordinary...