I'm getting just a little bit sick of these extremes of weather. Until the beginning of this year we were still subject to a very harsh drought that lasted more than three years. All that broke in January with some lovely rain which it has been doing more on than off ever since. It has currently been pouring with rain for about two days and now we ( Read more... )

"They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening
we will remember them."
-- From the Anzac Day Service

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen passed away at 6:00pm 23rd April 2005. Peter Beattie the current premier of Queensland made the following comment which sums up Sir Joh so aptly: "There will be people who love him and there will be people who hate him but the fact is that if you look at the total equation and you take away negative and the positive , he did ( Read more... )

I'm going to bed - that's all I have to say about today!

For those of you who appreciate poetry here is some fluff from one of Australia's best

( As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue )