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I was down in the main street this morning doing what passes as normal for my fellow humans where I live and a bus was sitting at a bus stop and it had a large advertisment on the side for “Swan Lake…. on ice” and it got me thinking about a couple of things.
Firstly, how […]

I got home from work the other evening and found a rather large and bulky envelope in my mail box and a cold chill went down my spine - large bulky envelopes are never a sign of anything good happening, however, this time I was pleasantly surprised to find it was some (relatively) good news.
PAAL, […]

Last week, Lady Cathie and I paid a visit to her mum, the Duchess Clare, in her aged care residence. It was a good day but by far the most unusual part of it all was some of the converstation in the car on the way home.
Only the end part was a little off kilter, […]

I had to actually go to a US news site to read it for myself when I heard a snippet of news on the radio this morning about the strike in the USA by immigrant workers because they object to proposed changes to immigration laws in that country - mainly regarding a change in December […]