International

Good ol’ Brits

November 20, 2010

BBC News – One in ten ‘cannot use London Tube or buses’. The study claimed: Only 10 of London’s 270 Tube stations are completely step-free all the way from street level to train. Just one third of London’s 300 rail stations have step-free access from street to platform. While all London’s buses now have ramps, [...]

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On a big date – September 11 from down here

September 12, 2010

9 years ago I signed a mortgage for what was meant to be a family home. I was living in Perth at the time. We, XH and I had just seen the mortgage broker off after a marathon contract signing and finance explaining effort and we were exhausted. I turned on the television in the [...]

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Are we at the starting blocks?

May 13, 2010

Get ready its going to be a bumpy ride and a long run. In the wake of what seemed a somewhat elongated UK election (who is David Cameron anyway?), I got to thinking about our own political landscape here in Australia. For those of us in New South Wales at least, we can look forward [...]

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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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true confessions

March 27, 2009

Ok. Are you ready? At the risk of making a fool of myself ….. I am hooked on The Biggest Loser. I know what those of you that have known me in real life will think. I am after all the girl that didn’t own a television for 5 years. I used to gloat about [...]

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Bali bombers gone.

November 9, 2008

After 6 years the three master minds of the bombings that killed 88 Australians have now been executed by firing squad. I lived in WA at the time and many of the killed and injured were from the West. I remember clearly the shock waves in Perth as many of our own who were holiday-makers [...]

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Pressure princess

February 7, 2006

According to this; the younger daughter-in-law of the Japanese dynasty is expecting. This could be historically very very telling. The 39 year old Princess Kiko is expecting her third child. Assuming this is then her last, if this is not a boy the law would have to be have to be changed to accomodate a [...]

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Cork Notes — backdated

August 26, 2005

Well I’m sitting here in Cork airport that is – in my ways reminiscent of T3 at Heathrow. Noisy, loud crowded, and understaffed by staff; who, with the exception of the guy who spotted my usual “carry coffee” dilemma and carried it; look as if the would rather be at a funeral than here. Cork [...]

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