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October 8, 2014

Someone’s at least trying

Equal Australia Party I’m not advocating the EAP as The Solution, but at least someone has taken the bit between his teeth and is running with it. On thepage MY link takes you to is a link to their site, to enable you to see something of their platform.Filed under: Newsworthy, Politics Tagged: Equal Australia […]
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Published on October 08, 2014 10:00

October 7, 2014

DP Writing Challenge: The unreliable narrator

This week, consider the unreliable narrator — a classic storytelling device — in your own work, no matter your genre. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_wri... ******************** I need to write about my mother, as do many, at various time. Mothers are a genus –below family, which is below species– all on their own, in my opinion. Well, mine was. […]
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Published on October 07, 2014 22:20

October 6, 2014

Distraction

The New Matilda’s cartoonists do it again. And that’s all I’m going to say.Filed under: Politics Tagged: Islamophobia, Lindsay Foyle, The New Matilda
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Published on October 06, 2014 22:13

Pam – thank-you, ma’am !

Dedicated to anyone who has (as I have done one more than one occasion !) gone from room A to room B and stopped, thinking “Erhmmm … what did I come in here for …?” [grin]Filed under: Blogosphere Tagged: memory, … Continue reading →
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Published on October 06, 2014 16:49

The Entrance, NSW Central Coast

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Published on October 06, 2014 13:55

October 5, 2014

Telling it like it is

The New Matilda This online publication is my preferred source of all things Australian political, though notthe sole member ofthat smallish resource. The ALP, under the contemptible Shorten, is now hardly distinguishable from the Liberal coalition; and both have chosen tobe war-mongerers skulking under the banner of “free the people” – an open incitement to every nutcase in this country’s arising and tryingto produce home-made bombs. When someone can produce evidence of... Read More
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Published on October 05, 2014 10:52

October 4, 2014

If I’d ever had the chance …

Has thatphrase ever run through your head ? Or “I should love to have been able to—” ? There is something that has been inside my head for … oh, something like forty-five years. That’s pinning it to the time when I first worked in the music industry and was thus first exposed to the various activities comprising musos’ lives. It remained a secret in therefor a long, long time: I told... Read More
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Published on October 04, 2014 16:41

October 3, 2014

Ready for another …?

You win, I lose | Supertramp | Chrysalis (Oxygen) | 1997Filed under: Blogosphere Tagged: Supertramp, You win I lose
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Published on October 03, 2014 18:18

October 2, 2014

Enter the dancing man …

What a delight ! You may all have known about him forever, but I only just found out about him through the good offices of my serial emailing friend in Perth. To anyone who’s as ignorant as I was until ten minutes ago, this is Matt Harding. He travels around the world and dances ( ! ) with its myriad peoples. And it’s WONDERFUL ! http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/videos is the page on his website... Read More
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Published on October 02, 2014 22:04

TROWC: The Rabble Of Wicked Children comprising the Oz gu...

TROWC: The Rabble Of Wicked Children comprising the Oz guvmint, alas !Filed under: Uncategorized
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Published on October 02, 2014 11:48