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One of my late kinsmen was the village idiot of Sunshine North. He happily used to live some of the time on a vacant block there which resembled a garbage tip with abandoned cars and machinery he collected. He also would have trouble with the RSPCA from time to time as he would harbour wild …
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I have long been in the habit of occasionally reading extracts from Mao’s Little Red Book for laughs. Yes, I do need to get a life. But just in the past few days, I have discovered The Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party’s answer to the BBC and Voice of America, and I must say …
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So, this is our sixth lockdown in Victoria the failed technocrat Daniel Andrews has inflicted on us since this plague reached us 16 months ago. I don’t normally bother watching the press conferences for him or any of the other technocrats currently ruling us by decree, but a group of us in the office gathered …
Continue reading “Trying to find a silver lining in the lockdown”
I have no sage like powers. In retrospect, I would have been better off to have left my money in the share market last year rather than to pull it all out in March 2020 and then trickle it back in over the intervening 16 months. But this week, I was reminded of an anecdote …
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Sometimes it’s good to be wrong. Just over 6 months ago in this blog when we hit 100 million Covid cases I wearily predicted that at the then current rate of infection we would double to 200 million cases by Easter. I was wrong and I’m glad. Instead, it’s taken about 27 weeks instead of …
Quite a few years ago (time does fly), there was a locally written novel in our bookstores by a Melbourne English teacher Peter Minack, titled ‘CWG (Campaigning With Grant)’. It is written from the first person perspective of Brigadier General John Aaron Rawlins, aide to Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the …
People who know me well are aware that I am only ever half joking when I say that I wish the British Empire still existed and that I would much prefer for the Commonwealth Games to revert to its original name, The Empire Games. Whilst I have very little interest in sport (except that the …
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I consider Australian Rules Football to be true football, and aside from my enjoyment of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+, I do not have any interest in soccer (aka Association Football). Nor do I have any real interest in the Olympics. If I did, I would be posting on this blog this week headings like …
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I’m old enough to remember when the Melbourne City Square opened in 1980. The hype of the opening quickly turned into derision and it rapidly turned into a moribund white elephant in the heart of the city. The main symbol of this Quixotic attempt at creating a civic centre was the strange angular metal sculpture …
If you pardon the quotation from the classics, the title to this blog post comes from the Simpsons episode ‘Deep Space Homer’ from season 5 of that show. It is uttered by newsman Kent Brockman when live feed from the space shuttle shows an ant farm Homer has inadvertently broken. Kent interprets that as meaning …
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