This was an important day. Finally, a Prime Minister of Australia was going to apologise for the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families. I thought the day important enough to make my eldest daughter listen to it on the radio. I could imagine being able to tell people, thirty years in the future, that I listened to Kevin Rudd's ( Read more... )

Most people would say that procrastination is not a desirable quality in anyone. Most of the same people would say that perseverance is a good quality. I say that it is procrastination which produces perseverance (potentially). I will give you an example. On Sunday the 16th of September I am running in the City to Bay 12km fun run. This is a non- ( Read more... )

I escaped from the Dungeon of Davidbradshaw!

I killed Silly Not Funny the leprechaun.

I looted the Dagger of Poetry, the Dagger of Theology, the Sceptre of Religion, the Wand of God, the Sword of Writing, the Armour of God and 25 gold pieces.

Score: 50
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To my great relief, the first week of uni has been relatively stress free. In fact the most stressful aspect of university has been riding my bike in peak hour traffic. But even that has been surmountable. I found that the linear park trail does not take me too far out of the way and as the only traffic on that are pedestrians and other riders then ( Read more... )

As of tonight, it is less than one week till uni starts. Well, O' week, anyway. This is like Christmas for me. I love all things new except when said new things are not cool... like new shoes (ouch) and babies (no sleep). Thankfully, I have none of those previously mentioned things in my life at the moment. This week however, seems like it may drag ( Read more... )

Well, I know that this page is going to get read a whole lot today because I am sure I am the only one writing something about recent developments in Iraq. I have been reading Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy. A large paperweight with equally heavy ideas and insights, but I have been attempting to read it and understand it in my spare time. What occurs ( Read more... )

This is my day off and I am doing some things I have wanted to do. One of them is writing in this journal. I have enjoyed reading
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What a year. That statement can be used in 2 ways however, in my case it definitely refers to the "Interesting and, at times, difficult" way. The major theme for the year seems to have been a stripping away of  God's blessing and provision and substituting it for God' blessing and provision but in a much smaller sense. Either way, we have been ( Read more... )

What is going on? I scored really well on my Uni entrance exam but of course I have to wait a while to see if I have a uni spot or not. What is even more frustrating than this wait is trying to work out how I am going to do this study. I have to support a family and I also know that if I commit to studying part-time that I will probably never ( Read more... )

I have been reading the second best book that I have ever read. I am almost at the end and I am starting to regret that it will soon be over. (I hear you ask how a book that you have not finished can be the second best book ever. What if the ending is terrible? It's all about the cliche...i mean journey). In case you were wondering, the book is ( Read more... )