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…