I am reminded of the famous quote from Bill Hayden in 1983, when he was ousted for the more popular and in this case, successful, Bob Hawke, that a drover's dog could have won the election. Surely this time has come again ( Read more... )

Well, I got a copy of "1001 Movies to see before you Die" which is truly a lovely book. I found out later that Heather was planning to give it to me for Mothers (dunno where to put the apostrophe there, so I'll leave it out ...)Day, so it was very sad that I had jumped in ahead of her, but now I'm really thinking of it as her present to me anyway ( Read more... )

Joh Bjelke-Petersen is dead. Well, he's been pretty harmless for a long time now, but he did plenty back in the 70s. I hear on the news that shops have closed in his honour today, the day of his funeral. And people have put up signs saying "Farewell, Sir Joh. We salute you." Hmmmm. Well, I suppose people voted for him, the same as they voted ( Read more... )

Ok, maybe I haven't enough friends in here to do the favourite books thing ... and I forbade Heather from answering because she saw the pile of books near the computer ( Read more... )

My Christmas Tree is dead ( Read more... )

1. Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books ( Read more... )

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||| 50% Stability |||||||||||||||| 63% Orderliness |||||||||| 40% Empathy |||||||||||||||| 70% Interdependence |||||||||||| 43% Intellectual |||||||||||| 50% Mystical |||| 16% Artistic |||||||||||| 43% Religious |||||||||||||||| 63% Hedonism |||||||||||||| 56% ( Read more... )

You Are 29 Years Old

29

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

You Belong in 1970

1970

If you scored ( Read more... )

1. What time did you get up this morning? 6 o’clockish even thought it is a public holiday. Yesterday on the other hand (a work day) I woke at 8 grrr ( Read more... )