( What I did on my 50th birthday........ )

From the Guardian by Bridget Delaney

"Australian democracy is not feral. The edges and electricity that British and American campaigns have touched in recent months have not been seen in the mainstream here.

We show up to vote, patiently and in large numbers. We are not angry, there are no assaults at polling booths, or conspiracy theories that the ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, scott_lynch!

Please keep writing.....

Isn't it time we installed a permanent gag on the Prime Minister? He is an embarrassment to us all.

And, I, for one, am sick of cringing everytime he opens his big trap.

Not again. Liberal Party* Just stop, please, before you make even greater fools (if possible) of yourselves.

*liberal in name only. Seriously, they should be reported for advertising under false pretences....

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

- Winston Churchill (House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947)

Actually the full paragraph that this quote comes from makes interesting reading

( Our politicians may have forgotten this.... )

We all know about comfort food, and some of us have comfort reads, but do any of you have comfort listening? You know, the music that you listen to when you need comfort, when all about is black and dark. It may be the stuff that confirms how sad and evil the world is, or it may be the stuff that lifts you our of the gloom and makes you feel "With ( Read more... )

Finally, it had to happen. It was time to farewell Paris and head off on the next stage of our adventure.

So after farewelling our landlady* , our favourite breakfast cafe and St Germain, we headed for Montparnesse station via the Metro. Between us and our train are stairs, lots and lots of stairs. It must really suck to be in a wheelchair in this ( Read more... )

Today is the day we most wanted to spend in Paris - our tenth wedding anniversary.

Naturally, that means we go and visit the Catacombs. In the midst of Death, etc....

( First, a warning..... )

Wherein our intrepid adventures set forth into the vast spaces of the Louvre, hunting an elusive painting and discovering divers strange wonders.

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