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On the wedding : just thoughts

April 30, 2011

I watched. Perhaps I too am a closet royalist too but I love the fact that the Brits have a sense of tradition/occasion and a moment. A unifying force Possibly Related Posts: Earth Hour – Earth Hour, the biggest climate awareness campaign ever! Bake sale values added disability access is like organic fruit Update on [...]

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Earth Hour – Earth Hour, the biggest climate awareness campaign ever!

March 27, 2010

Earth Hour – Earth Hour, the biggest climate awareness campaign ever!. Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold On the wedding : just thoughts Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me just for some fun — clay chess

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Bake sale

December 21, 2009

This is a photo of this evening’s labour. My first attempt at baking in this kitchen, with this oven since the move but more importantly for me it’s shortbread complete with my grandmother’s pricking technique. It may not have been so evenly spread but for a first batch in several years it smells amazing. Possibly [...]

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values added

November 4, 2009

Interesting take on “assisted suicide” as a care prevention option. This couple were apparently in good health but precisely because they were in good health now was the time of their choosing; “Mr and Mrs Milner’s daughter Chrissy said her parents had been in good health but did not want to get to a stage [...]

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disability access is like organic fruit

August 24, 2009

Not that long ago, the origin of the fruit and veggies in our supermarkets was a lot less important to the general populous than it is now. Barring the scandals of oil spills and contamination reports we supermarket shoppers were largely content to believe that the fruit and vegetables that were being presented to us [...]

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Update on media behaving badly

July 28, 2009

As a follow up from yesterday’s post comes this outlining some of the fall out from “Dancing with the Stars”; including comment from Gerrard and his wife, Heather. It includes some advice from Gerrard for the judges: “I know I make a lot of mistakes as a dancer, and I’m happy for Todd and the [...]

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media behaving badly

July 27, 2009

When Sol Trujillo accused Australians of being racist; we told him “Adios’ and proceeded to have a debate amongst ourselves nationally about whether we are in fact racist. When The Chaser aired the  skit attempting to humourise the plight of kids with cancer and the charities supporting them; healthy debate (whatever the result) flared up [...]

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Views from the edges Part 1

March 7, 2009

I was there yesterday. squeezed into the back of the church for the funeral of one of my inspirations; Matt Laffan  That was hard. The fact he was only 7 years older than me and died of complications from his disability is even harder. Possibly Related Posts: Doing the limbo The email I wrote for [...]

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We are shrinking and maybe not just the economy

March 5, 2009

It seems official. Australia has just experienced its first quarter of negative growth in 8 years with a drop of half a percent in the GDP.  We are spending less after the aparent boom of the past 17 years. As Peter Hatcher as pointed out this must be exceedingly frustruteding for the Government. For Rudd [...]

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taught by kurt

August 26, 2008

Last night watched Kurt Fernley on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. Kurt is apparently a qualified teacher, a guy a little younger than me who grew up an hour and a half or so from where I did and had three older brothers. He has had two lucky escapes from car-related accidents and eventually wants [...]

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