Grandma’s Life #45

Of course Grandma had to buy a Christmas present for Grandpa. Back in 1950 this was a good choice. From Esquire, January 1950 so perhaps Grandma would not have seen this ad. Gratefully burgled from Vintage Scans

Proposal

What is the Problem with Greece?

Excerpts from a New Statesman article written by John Pilger The heresy of the Greeks offers hope Selective Destruction The crisis that has led to Greece’s “rescue” by European banks and the International Monetary Fund is the product of a grotesque financial system that itself is in crisis. Greece is a microcosm of a modern [...]

Red

I Have Never Over-Achieved in My Life

God and Reality

Photo Hunt; Memorial

Brunswick Junction. A small town I sometimes pass through in the South West of Western Australia. The centre of the dairy industry in a new State. Less than a century after being founded, Western Australia was sending its sons to war on the other side of the world. After the guns fell silent, the Government [...]

I’m Guilty As Well

xkcd, of course

Mauve

BBC Quiz of the Week

The Archive got me into terrible trouble this week. A Grand Daughter stopped speaking to me because of this little bit of gastronomical delight. I have since sincerely apologised. In other news, a daughter has laughed uproariously and is off to check her local sushi restaurant. Oh dear, could this be the start of a [...]

Emoticons for the Advanced Writer

Have you ever been overcome with an emotion but unable to find the right emoticon to express yourself? It is a problem from which I often suffer. Here is a list of essential emoticons for everyday use. *:0 = “MY FACE IS ON FIRE!!!!” !,! = “Hi. I am a rabbit” % = “I feel [...]

Sky Watch Friday

This evening, off the coast of Bunbury in the South West of Western Australia. Before the Squall THE wind is rising on the sea, The windy white foam-dancers leap; And the sea moans uneasily, And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep. Ridge after rocky ridge uplifts, Wild hands, and hammers at the land, Scatters in [...]

Future Groaner

Just for Cybe. There was a great deal of ignorant opposition on Earth to Ferdinand Feghoot’s Galactic Concordat of 2133, which made interstellar tourism universally possible. Fortunately, Feghoot was present when the first tourist landed in Old Sanfran Cisco, right where a new office building was being constructed. The tourist was a striped, felinoid being [...]

Totally Looks Like

Her reality In strange creativity Losing our respect

Switzerland Whips Up Giant Tiramisu

Swiss volunteers have whipped up the world’s biggest tiramisu weighing 2.31 tonnes, regaining the record they lost to a group of French bakers last year. Around 155 volunteers from the Italian community of Porrentruy in western Switzerland spent 14 hours making the enormous dessert at the town’s ice-skating rink, restaurateur Nicola Maurizio said. Measuring eight [...]