Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 56

Very short addendum

It took about eighteen hours by train to get to Ingleburn (OK, so I’m exaggerating), but I’d loaded “Dragonfly in Amber” – vol. 2 of “Outlander” – onto the Sandisk SanClip and zoned out for the entire trip.I was collected from the station and driven to the Probus meeting at which I was the ‘monthly speaker’ and found there to

Off again …

I have another talk, this-morning, and it’s in a suburb I’ve never been to ! This is the first time I’ve addressed a group in an organization other than a library: it’s a Probus group, and I hope very much that it will herald further Probus group talks via word of mouth. I have no way of getting in touch

TROWC still telling frightful lies

Now we ignoranti who weren’t cluey enough to expect the May budget to have included a chart showing how the figures affect whom discover the chance we missed ! HAD we known to expect this list of figures, we could’ve been trumpeting its absence since that hideous night ! Because it weren’t there. And although Fairfax has since put in

Miss me ?

Wonder how come you didn’tfind my usual drivel in your Inbox or (ugh !) Reader today ?Well, in the event that anyonedid, I don’t have anexcuse –but I do have an explanation. I am completely hooked on “Outlander”. Like, COMPLETELY. In fact, I am a total ADDICT. My young sister (whose fault all this is !) and I were discussing

I’m useless here: how about you lot ?

Sue Slaght and her husband are Adventurers. She is also a blogger of some renown and excellent travel writing (with photos !). She’s entered a comp. she’s desperate to win, but it has to be voted for by social networking. The organizers won’t accept email as it’s impossible to control. Which means that I’m unable to cast a single vote.

This is SO COOL …!

My compatriot has done something so admirable that I can scarcely find sufficient superlatives to apply to it: she has followed the instructions I provided in the unlikely situation where someone wanted to replicate my workaround for a front-of-house (meaning at the head of the blog) nav system – a series ofTables of Content by Category. It’s not that I’m

Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag

This week, share a photo that foregoes the straightforward in favor of the twisting and winding. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_pho... ******************** BCCs. Know about ’em ? I do. Now. I had a punch biopsy followed fairly shortly by facial surgery, a couple of years ago. I also know about melanomas, as I had one of those chopped out of the middle of my

Coffee break ?

Someone whose posts I follow decided on a really simple one today (oh – I believe it’s still yesterday with most of you … no matter). As I said to her, itreminded me that there’s something I would be absolutely fascinated to know: the way in which we all make our coffee … This is a simple coffeepot like the

CS monthly photo #10

It was 2002 … In Montalcino we stayed at a B&B, very expensively restauro-ed. Its owners started out lovely, but rapidly changed character when we had – foolish me ! – a discussion that led to the imminent Italian elections … La signora, having raved enthusiastically about Silvio Berlusconi and finding us less than agreeable on the topic, then professed

The NFSA (apparently) makes changes

(I have appended pissed-off kind of comments to the bottom of this article in “The Conversation”.) Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive has been hit by TROWC’s mindless and petty removal of funds, as has every other worthy organization in the country; so its boffins have been forced to Take Steps Of One Kind Or Another. This is the archive