There is a time for the leaving. The Freer family have been granted a visa allowing us to migrate and remain indefinitely in Australia, and Barbs and I have talked about it and we will convert that into citizenship as soon as possible (4 years), as we believe that is the right and honorable thing to do ( Read more... )

BET ON THE BLACK . . . DRAGON ( Read more... )

On the beach ( Read more... )

I know - it's in the millions in the US. And the death toll is relatively small, thank heavens. But it's about to impact Southern Africa. And I think that may make Mexico look healthy. Our health ministry says its all under control - ooh look another winged pig flutters past... spreading disease! Which is why official numbers jumped from IIRC 8 on ( Read more... )

It appears the tree of greed and short-sighted insanity is well watered right around the world. Here we have car prices going UP - an average of 11.3 % I believe as sales fall throught the floor. Or as for e-books (http://www.ereads.com/2008/10/random- ( Read more... )

Onward. Just over a 1030 today. Good stuff but still. It's MGC blog day and dear Discovery Health are BAAACK. Now claiming I am the one that never changed my address. Well, ODD they had my present address. Odd that i still have the archive of the general notification, odd that they successfully send their bum-fodder to me - but not invoices or ( Read more... )

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I am accessing through very slow, very bad dialup. Sorry i haven't been able to reply to messages. My apologies. This is the first time I've managed to get a webpage in 2 days.

Dave

The clerics that rule Iran do NOT want the world to see this. For the sake of this young woman killed for no reason go and look at it. It's a small bit of spitting in their eye ( Read more... )

I've always wanted to get this right, and never quite got to it. I love knowing just what fish are there and it's a great sampling technique aside from anything else. So today, just because, I spent a couple of hours at it. My word. It'll take a few more hours. :-) Fish remain very safe.