dunno wot the britney fans are whinging about, they've been getting ripped off for years anyway...they deserve it

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278 passengers on a Qantas flight to Sydney were left stranded in a plane on the tarmac at Melbourne airport for several hours when the pilot forgot to turn the engines on.

I've got FM radio on my new ipod. I'm in bed station hopping,  I've landed on 90.5 . . . it's the kinda music you see on tatty old vinyl LPs in good sammies . .. it's so bad I can't turn it off...  Eidleweiss for god sake !!

went shopping today . . Ikea was busy, lots of people stocking up for their 2011 street verge rubbish clearance.

pay day today..i just paid all my bills while sitting here drinking my morning coffee.. no big deal, most of us do it these days but it never ceases to amaze me, sooo glad I was born when I was   :-)

I emailed mediwatch tonight re tv news vision of that poor little lad killed on Rottnest Island; vision of the island, fine, vision of the cottage, fine.. vision of a blood splattered wall ??.. I think not. All stations used that bit of vision, including the ABC.

It seems the Busby contempt for officialdom and our flair for idiocy goes back a long way.
My research shows a great uncle Fred Busby who, in the census of 1891 was a gardener in York but, in the census of 1901, had made the quantum leap to "Roughrider in the 17th Lancers". In the census of 1911 he had gone back to a more sedentary lifestyle as a ( Read more... )

I've been able to track dad's side through census records back to 1841 except for 1891, I just couldn't find my grandad or his family in 1891 and it looked for a while like they'd managed to avoid the census people that year...until last night I finally tracked them down ..the reason I couldn't find it was because grandad (Arthur Busby) had been ( Read more... )

I don't know why I watched it...  it was just setting myself up to get angry...that tv show, 21 funniest australians..  norman gunston didn't get a mention and barry humphries was beaten to top spot by paul fucking hogan..  thats like "are you being served" beating monty python   ~~

A bit of online idleness and curiosity a few weeks ago has turned into hobby . . genealogy, yep, the 'ol family tree.
In my family it's a massive challenge as there is very questionable grandparentage on both sides; I'm missing a couple of grandads in fact. They probably both realised what abominable lineage they'd started and decided to skip and ( Read more... )