My husband’s fiftieth birthday came as a great shock to all those who know him.  We were of the opinion that he shouldn’t have seen forty let alone fifty in fact some of us have even put money on him not making thirty but somehow he has managed to defy death. We believe, and with good reason, that he would have removed himself from the gene pool by now. We also believe that he should have not only been nominated but that there was a fair chance that he would have taken out first prize in th…

Australians’ let us all rejoice for they are going back to school…

As fast as you run your flag up the pole, eat your ‘cooked on the outside still raw on the inside’ snag  and the flyblown potato salad that on any other day would have the health department closing you down, argue over who is Australia’s greatest cricketer that has ever donned the baggy green, sing a stirring rendition of the first verse badly because not many of us know the second verse but we all know what girt me…

Quote of the Week

“There’s a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”

– Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

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With the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaching and knowing that it had fallen on the day my daughter was born I had added Germany to my itinerary for my European vacation  in the hopes of getting a piece of the wall for her 21^st next year.

I didn’t know much about Germany except they liked beer, they invented Adidas shoes and aspirin and they lost both world wars both of which they had started.

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Planning a trip to New York City, the city that never sleeps, seemed like a good idea back in October, but now that the date of departure is upon me I have put it in the ‘what were you thinking’ category. Obviously planning a trip to New York City in February hasn’t been one of my better ideas. As I sit inside my home with the air conditioner running on high because it is 42°C outside I wonder what possessed me to not only think about a trip to NYC, but actually book and pay for it. All I am s…