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Harbour Bridge Climb
On Sunday (that bloody hot day !) one of my brothers and my dad and I climbed the Harbour Bridge ! 'Twas excellent !
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It's been so long since I did a general update that it's about time I did :)
This year has been so insanely busy....... I can't believe it's the end of October already ! WTF happened to April through October ? I demand a recount *lol*.
I've been doing a course on NLP & Hypnosis, that has been intensely busy. I have a week away doing Presentation ( Read more... ) -
Insurance Shenanigans
Today I went to pay for my Green-slip. I got out the renewal from AAMI and was gobsmacked to find they wanted to charge me $681.00. I thought - That’s absurd !
I got online and checked out the prices using the price calculator. I ended up going with GIO for $397.85
I rang AAMI and apparently the reason is they don’t like Real Insurance for my ( Read more... ) -
Swine Flu Vaccination
With all the news about Swine Flu vaccinations now being available and countries across the world trying to vaccinate most of their populations it got me to wondering. How many people will be getting vaccinated ?
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Malalai Joya in Australia
I don't often post - I'm not a very good blogger - sorry :)
Next Tuesday night I'm going to a talk by Malalai Joya. She was the Afghan Parliamentarian that they booted out of parliament because she called the current puppet government officials warlords and called for them to be charged with war crimes.
She's here to launch her book "Raising my ( Read more... ) -
Folic Acid Mandatory Fortification
Has anyone heard that Australia is soon going to insist that all millers add Folic acid to their flour for bread making purposes ? This will come into affect by the 13th September this year.
It all sounds nice and fluffy - ensuring that women who are likely to get pregnant get enough folic acid, reducing the risk of miscarriage and making babies ( Read more... ) -
Beltaine 08
What a fabulous weekend ! Beltaine 08 was a brilliant success. I enjoyed it immensely even though I worked my butt off. Richard and I drove down and arrived just after 2. We were the first and I took the opportunity to get out of the car, stretch my legs, and take heaps of photos of plants and rocks and flowers and the view. It is such a stunning ( Read more... ) -
What a week
It's been a very long week. Work is insane but what else is new ( Read more... ) -
Baby Bird
During last week there was a baby bird at work who didn't have any tail feathers. He was such a cute little thing. I thought he was one of those Indian Miner birds. I kept picking him up off the ground and putting him in the tree so that he wasn't eaten by the cats that wander through. On Friday he looked so sad and I knew that if I didn't do ( Read more... ) -
Back at Work
Today was the first day back at work since our "Not a housewarming" party. I got the flu the next day and spent most of my time asleep until finally today I ventured into the office ( Read more... )