Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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Stinking hot again today so apart from a brief early morning evacuation stroll Tacker and I have stayed indoors. Blinds are down and fans at full bore. I’m hoping that the cooler air of dawn we harvested will see us through until we open wide our doors again to a sea breeze at dusk.
I couldn’t be bothered even walking as far as the newsagent to pick up the Oz Weekend edition, my one weekly paper purchase. I’ll salvage the Crossword page from somewhere later. In fact, come to think of it, I might as well do that in future. Even buying just that one newspaper a week I seem to accumulate enormous amounts of newsprint for re-cycling. How on earth others organise and dispose of the piles they must have beats me. All those trees…….
Patricia, you missed the Oz weekend edition? I can’t see this is a great loss.
We have beautiful weather here. I have been doing housework, and random internet bludging. The evening is going to be spent on computer games and beer… but in the interim I have to assemble some $5 bookcases. Ah, Sunday fun…
Our smallish dog loves the Oz and the Advertiser…he’reads’ them often. Often think that this is the best feedback we can give Rupe.
hot weather Perth, hot in Adelaide tomorrow – up go the shutters.
eh? the forecast is for mid 20′s towmorrow. BOM forecasts the hottest day this week as 31 on Wednesday. Also I’ve just read a forecast for Noarlunga that gives a 60% chance of 22mm of wet stuff from the sky on Thursday. I hope that doesn’t disappear like the last lot.
SFOI – thats sounds much better
Well, I’ve had a busy Sunday. After touching down in Singapore last night I spent the morning in the hotel gym, swimming, and then enjoying the hotel’s breakfast buffet. This afternoon I went for a hike in the rain forest.
This evening I’m heading out into China Town for the last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations. I expect there will be beer and good food…
Unfortunately I need to be up at 6 tomorrow to make it to my meetings on time!
They have a “China Town” in Singapore, mick?? Heavens to Betsy!!
Spent the weekend reading and note-taking from various history books on American Revolution. Should be ready to start writing chapter 4 of my book by the end of the week at the latest. Also have 2 book reviews to write.
Spent the weekend finishing reading Robert Service’s Penguin History of Modern Russia and began reading Stephen Baxter’s Ark.
I spent yesterday at a mate’s with a few others, processing about 120kg of tomatoes. Not lazy, but fun!
Also, for those interested, I have met with success in regaining my Lady Friend’s affections.
Yay FDB.
What did you make with the tomatoes?
I have spent Friday moving house, then Saturday and Sunday cleaning the house because the previous tenants seem to have been filthy grubs. If there’s anything more guaranteed to produce a deep and earnest hatred for one’s fellow humans, to induce instant brutality, to easily break down the habitual secular-Christian ethic of kindness and charity, and to turn mild-mannered folk into ravening, fanatical murderous thugs, it’s the real estate market in Sydney. The space between benign ineffectual inner-city leftism to Taliban tongue-cutting ferocity, I’ve discovered, is the width of a tenancy condition inspection report. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a lot more SKSes, RPKs and bandoliers of ammunition under beds around the Sydney inner west than anyone suspected.
And you know that things are pretty far gone when you’re on your hands and knees scrubbing a floor, whistling and having hallucinations of Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer’s apprentice in the scene in Fantasia.
Domestos is one hell of a drug.
FDB I am interested and have been since you set out on your venture, but I was reluctant to ask how things had gone. Well done! I look forward to further good news postings. Nice to know that even when one’s own passions are all spent others are still getting on with it.
Congrats FDB on your successful sortie d’amour. I’m betting there’s a marvelous 1930s screwball romantic comedy that could be made of it. May you and your lady love long enjoy good fortune and the delights of one another’s company.
“…after summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now…”
onya FDB
Liam at 12- I know this might seem like an insult but wait till you are a landlord.
It can be very illuminating and depressing at the same time.
FDB, Awwwwwww…
Murph, I’ve got nothing against landlords, and would welcome the economic security of being one. Landlords don’t have a choice about the geographic class warfare we’re engaged in any more than tenants. (Real estate agents and property managers, though, first up against the wall).
It’s the racket I object to; in which for forty years we’ve let superannuation and pensions be replaced by desperate clawing for real estate investments, so that there are a class of small landholders trying to make do in their middle age and retirement out of inadequate capital. Give people an better financial means of supporting themselves after retirement other than negative gearing the fuck out of a mouldy house that hasn’t been renovated since the Whitlam years, and give tenants a more secure way of living than chasing each others’ tails around a suburb on Saturday mornings every six to twelve months to find a new place to live, and everybody would win.
The system we’ve got is enough to turn your thoughts to random acts of violence. Or some kind of Georgist mutualism. Or both.
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Yay, FDB.
The damage in Concepcion has been terrible, but in the nearby village of Contacepcion much less, because they had more protection.
That’s fantastic news, FDB.
I seem to recall you were also having band problems. Is that sorted, or (having got back together with your missus) do you not care much?
Awww, from me too. Glad to hear it FDB.
The forecast rain has disappeared, as I suspected it would. drats.
But still it feels like autumn to me. Lovely cool nights. I love this time of year.
oh yeah, I saw a crested shrike tit in my backyard..very cool bird, check ‘em out:
http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0003/86646/Falcunculus_frontatus_Crested_Shrike-tit_620.jpg
sadly becoming quite rare, so it was quite an honour to host a visit.