Tuesday Tune

Clean-cut, neat hair, ties, words you can understand. This can’t be music!

Grandma’s Life #24

“For working girls and housewives who like a dress instead of a suit this is a dress which would never wear out. Probably it would be seen at its best at the beginning of autumn. The dress itself in brown and white with brown hat, shoes and gloves, would look very finished for outdoors, too, [...]

More Sparrowhawks

I was lucky enough to grab a quick shot of three of four sparrow hawks which were cooling themselves in our little “pond”.

Old love.

A guy was in his back yard is trying to fly a kite. He threw the kite up in the air, the wind caught it for a few seconds, then it came crashing back down to earth. He tried this a few more times with no success. All the while, his wife was watching from [...]

Witch Finding

Desert Bug

I brought my washing in the other day. I thought it felt heavy.

Man Domesticates Woman

Once burdened with physically demanding chores, exhausting farm work, and other unpleasant duties, man’s quality of life dramatically improved after his successful domestication of the common woman. Though for years women had roamed free throughout most of Asia, Europe, and Africa, experts estimate that by around 3,000 BCE men had begun putting them to work. [...]

God and Religion

Fast, Broken

For those of you who were worried about my lack of food yesterday, there is good news. I successfully broke my fast.

Photo Hunt; Fast

I haven’t broken mine yet – – -

A Cleaning Cheat Sheet for Men…

* Broom (brum) – a long handled brush used for sweeping (also doubles as a mode of transportation for your mother) * Vacuum (vak’ u em) – much like the leaf blower except it sucks in, instead of blowing out. Don’t let this alarm you. It isn’t broken and doesn’t need more torque, speed, RAM [...]

Blasphemy or Humanity?

This Christmas Season, a billboard has been erected by a New Zealand church. The Vicar of Auckland’s progressive Christian church St Matthew in the City, Glynn Cardy, says he wanted to lampoon the literal Christian conception story and get people discussing miracles and God. “We’re trying to lampoon the idea of a literal male God [...]

BBC Quiz of the Week

Much of this week was spent wondering what our pet cyclone would do. In the end it has decided to nothing at this stage and it is going to head west and go out to sea to become stronger again. Maybe sometime next week something dramatic will occur. Az managed to get a zero again [...]

Anniversary Present

John was in trouble, really big trouble. You see, he forgot his wedding anniversary and, if you’re married, you can imagine what he’s probably going through. His wife was really pissed. She told him “Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds AND [...]

Sky Watch Friday

After some days of clear skies, on Tuesday of this week we had the first signs of a developing cyclone to the north. Earlier news of Cyclone Laurence was posted Wednesday. Since then the clouds have increased and our temperatures fallen. No rain and I am beginning to think this will stay far enough away [...]