The Backflip Boys Weblog

I’ve been fairly busy for the last few days organising the mass mailout of invitiations to the sport presentation lunch in November - manually addressing 100 envelopes is murder on the wrists, but that goodness for self adhesive stamps and envelopes that don’t need licking. What the heck is stamp and envelop glue made out […]

My younger brother, hereby referred to as The fat bastard, celebrated his 33rd birthday today and I was going to give him a phone call tonight to wish him the best and see if he got any decent loot from his friends but he beat me to the punch and called me - saved me […]

In two days, it will be the Spring Equinox which means that Spring will officially start and the flowers can bloom and animals can head off an mate in public.
For me, Spring starts on the morning I go up to the back shed to get the lawn mower out and discover that, when I put […]

I think that I have managed to spend one of the laziest weeks at work in a long time thanks to the amazingly astounding power of computer generated scheduling of trains. I could really get used to only having to be at work for little more than 7 hours a day. The only real drawback […]

I can’t belive it - it isn’t even the Spring equinox and I am now dressing in shorts and t-shirts. This time last year, I can remember still rugging up during the day and running the A/C unit till around lunchtime. Weather is weird here nowdays, but I guess I’ll get used to it.
I know, […]

I must be stupid. I don’t mean stupid in not having a brain in my head - I’m pretty sure that I have one rattling around in that vast space. No, I mean that I must be stupid for thinking that people are smart enough to think for themselves rather than believe what they hear […]

I remember waking up at 2:00am on the morning of the September 11 attacks in the United States and watching the aftermath of the collapse of the WTC in disbelief. Over the past few days, I have been getting the same feelings of that morning watching the news footage of New Orleans in the aftermath […]