sorry |
Today is Sorry Day. It's a day when we say sorry for the things we have done to the Indigenous people of Australia. Specifically for the policies which saw young children ripped from their families ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 19:01:00 GMT |
burn and rave |
I am a bit emotionally drained this morning. The friend I mentioned, who lives in Darwin, flew in to Adelaide for tests at our hospital. Darwin doesn't have the facilities. He came into my work wit...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 18:28:00 GMT |
the jesus plane |
I came home one afternoon after school and Carl invited me in. This memory has just come back to me.His mother insisted I have a cup of tea. She was a thin, fussy woman, over-protective and anxious....
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 19:36:00 GMT |
the virgin and the creature |
Writing about Ryo brought back another memory. It would have been a few years earlier so I guess I was 11 or 12 and there was this girl I liked. I can't remember her name or anything about her. All...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 00:01:00 GMT |
lime chilli whisky |
There was a Japanese girl I liked at school called Ryo Sakura. She was an exchange student. She had jet black hair and pale skin with the loveliest eyes you've ever seen. I used to sit in maths cla...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 21:55:00 GMT |
flamingo |
You may remember me posting a blog a few months ago about some cowardly people who savagely beat an 85-year-old blind flamingo at Adelaide zoo?The good news is that he has fully recovered.The bad news...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 00:03:00 GMT |
sans the pointy hearing organs |
I think I've watched too much Star Trek lately. I'm thinking like a Vulcan.In the shops this morning some woman had an argument with the guy behind the counter. She demanded: "The customer is always...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 17:43:00 GMT |
hitler at the olympics |
Most people have been told the story that, at the 1936 Olympics, Hitler snubbed Jesse Owens. After Owens won agold medal, Hitler, incensed, stormed out of Olympic Stadium so he wouldn't have to congr...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 21:27:00 GMT |
star trek xi |
I saw the new Star Trek movie on the weekend. It was good. They made a few small errors, like having Kirk being born in space when he was born in Riverside, Iowa and having a drink called a Cardassi...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 21:07:00 GMT |
poor rupert |
Rupert Murdoch complained yesterday that he is not making as much money as he was before because people expect their news free on the Internet. Poor soul, he only made $3.9 billion dollars this year!
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 00:15:00 GMT |
