I hereby declare and promise that I will stop writing posts about the political world that surrounds us. Would anyone like a couple of pictures instead? Now for a bit of a song. I have, over time, written a number of stories about five friends that I went to school with – with whom I went to school – stop being careless John! So I … Continue reading Change of pace.
Years and years ago back as far as 1984 I had a little bookshop in the mountains about 40 km from Melbourne. I had just resigned from the Australian Army; I had recently divorced and needed to look after my two children and the Army would not give me the twelve months leave that I asked for so we went to live at the top … Continue reading Would you believe that?
Do you have highlights to rejoice? There is one that I carry with me wherever I go. I had recently become a father and the idea was to go to Spain. Why Spain? I forget that changes nothing. So out with the notebook. 1.Plan on going to Spain 2.Go to Berlitz and start learning Spanish 3.Get to England and can’t get a work permit 4.Don’t … Continue reading One month out of nine hundred and eighty eight.
Sometimes when it gets hot the easiest thing to do it just lie back and watch TV. I think we must at some stage accept the concept of climate change/global warming. All 197 countries of the United Nations have endorsed the Paris Agreement. Of those, 195 have solidified their support with formal approval. The only countries that have yet to formally join the agreement are … Continue reading It’s the weather, whether you like it or not.
. . . here I am, in my small one room unit, thinking about what a great life I have had even although I failed miserably to acquire a fortune from working all my life and this might well be the start of a series of miserable memories. That is how I ended my last post. It was prompted by a visit I recently from … Continue reading Seriously, life as it was.
I remember when I was a young boy probably about 12 years old and it was a hot time of the year where we lived in December just before we broke for the summer holidays and we played the summer version of ‘Storm the Castle’. Now if you never had a childhood where you could play ‘storm the castle’ I will tell you the rules … Continue reading Temperature conversion chart
I’m glad you all seemed to like my story about finding Scotland and whisky. But before we went to Scotland we needed to understand London and how the Underground worked. But before we even get to that maybe, for those who do not know and those who have forgot, here, at the start, is a little of the back story. I had been teaching for … Continue reading London for Beginners.
This is a story that is almost exactly 53 years old give or take a few days. We went to Scotland at the end of December. ‘We’ means myself, my then wife and my still now son. We were on a trip to Europe which was magic, wonderful and not a lot worked out as we had hoped. (BTAS) The word count is double my … Continue reading Scotland Taken out of Context.
Hello; my name is Consetta and my sister is Mirella. We are accustomed to them now. My sister and I were born on the same day. Everything about us is the same. We are both girls. We are identical. That should be enough for you; everybody knows stories about identical twin girls. There are some sisters who were born on the same day but are … Continue reading The Red Dress
This is just part of his story. He went to Asia too late – he should have gone earlier. Maybe life would have been better. But by the time he got there he was married and had two babies to look after. At first he didn’t see much different. There was the climate of course and the weather and obvious things like trees and flowers … Continue reading Left and Right – East and West –
Paol Soren 