I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
One of my favourite characters in literature is the Scarlet Pimpernel, the elusive hero of a series of novels about the French Revolution, a mischievous fellow who somehow is always half a step in front of the Jacobins in his efforts to rescue worthy people from Madame Guillotine, much to the annoyance of the zealots. …
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http://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/senior-liberals-ordered-to-produce-documents-to-unmask-mystery-blogger-20230228-p5co67.html I find Real Freedom News highly entertaining and am disappointed that it remains offline. But you can understand why. If the identity of its author becomes known then I expect that their piggy bank will be rather pinched.
Red wine has been my poison of choice since my mid 20s. And I have considered myself fairly well informed about red wine since my early 30s. And since my early 30s, I have also frequently been an investor in publicly listed Australian wine companies. That started with BRL Hardy (now the privately owned Accolade) …
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http://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/full-of-mouldy-loins-but-i-can-t-throw-away-d-h-lawrence-20230214-p5ckcm.html This article does remind me that my 2000 volume library is unlikely to be reread, and that adding to it doesn’t really give me pleasure anymore.
The other day, a colleague who is really into all the Star Wars derivative shows on Disney+ asked me if I was up to date with The Bad Batch and had finished watching Andor yet. I told him that I was not even up to date on the rebooted How I Met Your Father (a …
In totally unrelated news to my recent post about Jane Caro’s latest Karenseque tirade, I have ordered some t- shirts more suitable for a man in his soon to be mid 50s.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/tv-star-jane-caro-called-out-on-3aw-over-ageism-rant/news-story/a3ce215579b73607e1f342356ebb40b5 it’s great to see that age does not weary my favourite Karen, Jane Caro, who accuses a baker who called her husband “young man” of ageism.
My front verandah is one of my favourite parts of my home. Provided it is not too warm, it is a great place to sit in the evening and enjoy the end of the day. I was sitting on it last Saturday night with one of my friends, sipping some wine (red of course – …
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I have met George, Cardinal Pell, four times. The first was when a friend of mine, one with far greater devotion to Catholicism than I, organised for him to speak at Monash University in mid 1988. He was a newly appointed auxiliary bishop at the time, and he spoke diffidently but firmly, like someone might …
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