Last weekend my wife and were guests with a friend who is a barrister, and on the way to becoming a judge, all being well. We were talking about the mobile devices that we each had. He does not have one. No iPhone, no iPad, no Blackberry – not even a good old fashioned mobile [...]
In Australia we are in the early stages of a federal election. The interesting thing about this election is that it was preceded first by a “palace coup” in which the deputy Prime Minister essentially ousted the existing and elected PM. This took place, it appears, as the result of the party apparatchiks determining that [...]
Two Sundays ago I was in a shop in Bowral, Christmas shopping. I asked the lady who ran the shop how her Christmas trading was going. She said, “Well, it hasn't started yet. I'm hoping that it will start today….” Last Saturday I went into the local bottle shop in Berry, and asked Justin, who [...]
When I first signed up for a Facebook page – about 2005, I did not quite “Grok” Facebook. Why would a user want to say what they were eating for breakfast? Better yet, who the hell would be interested? I didn’t understand the sheep meme. Look at me – I can do this, you [...]
Yesterday marked the 1st anniversary of Robyn and I moving from Paddington in Sydney to Berry on the South Coast of NSW. It has been great to get away from the city, particularly at a time when our state government seem so intent on utterly screwing the place up. I think that they have the [...]
On the way home tonight from buying a new battery for my laptop from the Apple store in Woolongong I got caught in a traffic jam. It was at the end of Agar's Lane – about 2 or 3 k's from my house. I found out that the local pre-school teacher had come too fast [...]
I walk pretty much every morning through the woodland trail that goes up Moeyan Hill and along the next street along – its about a 40 minute walk – and is pretty aerobic. Along a section of Borrowdale Close there are some quite large pine trees and there are certain mushrooms that really like that [...]
One of my neighbours was telling me the other day that her father had been a milk taster on the South Coast and that the farm with the best tasting milk in the area was the dairy farm on Agar's Lane. It is still there, and still producing milk. This is how it looks early [...]
Several people have asked me to post pictures of the olive trees…. Here is a picture of one of them: Fortunately there are some established fruit trees too… We have mandarins, oranges, lemons, and here are a couple of the grapefruits that are just about ready to be picked! We don't have a functioning vegetable [...]
I haven't blogged in a fair while. Been busy doing things in the real world – mainly working on the house and the garden. Actually beyond the garden… I have been planting trees. I got an olive tree as a birthday present from my older daughter. So decided that one wasn't enough and went out [...]