Since we don’t live by politics 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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Go the Roar! C’mon the men in orange.
The Right caught out lying again today on Insiders. Andrew Bolt claimed only 800 people turned up to the pro-carbon tax when in reality it was 8,000 vs the 400 that turned up for the anti-carbon tax rally that was ballooned by the CEC lunatics.
Me thinks The Australian might have to start bumping up those freebies to boost their woeful circulation numbers.
I don’t think it’s April Fool’s Day, but I saw that Italy beat France in the 6 Nations yesterday. If only I’d stayed up to watch that one! (But who could expect such a thing?)
It’s a beautiful sunny day outside but I have to stay in and work. And the house keeps wobbling. Stupid earthquakes…
SG – Thanks for your blog on your experiences over the past few days. Glad to see you were OK. I have a niece who has been in Japan for the past four years studying Japanese. My niece lives in Shinjuku-ku which you talked about in your blog so presumably she faced the same difficulties as yourself. The map was very helpful in locating the areas around Tokoyo.
Rain again. It seems like it’s rained every Sunday(bar 1) since late October.
All except the weekend i spent in Melbourne, and it rained there !!
Not good for a Sunday golfer.
So bored i defrosted the tuckerbox freezer.(sigh)
But sg just lifted my spirits, bugger them earthquakes!!!
My pleasure mediatracker. Your niece lives in Shinjuku? An interesting place to live!
I’ve been looking at a photo my father gave me of a street in Tripoli taken, I assume, when he was in his twenties, though I’m not sure, on the back he has written in French, “this is my home”. I wish my father were alive to talk to about the situation in the place he once called ‘home’. I never did get a handle on the complexity of the history of Libya, nor his rather conflicted relationship with/to[?] that country.
Also, I spent some time trying to find room in a chaotic schedule to travel to the far north of SA. I had a call from a friend up there during the week, who says he has never, in his 65ish years, seen the country with so much vegetation.
Unsurprisingly, Jacques de Molay, there was the level of intellect in the handwritten signs gave us an insight into the mentality of the anti-Co2 mitigation crowd:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2011/03/12/axe-the-tax/
The sign said:
Axe the tax. Dump the Frump
Charming. I’m not sure if the person was representing Misogynists for Free Pollution but perhaps (s)he should have been.
Maybe it’s just my state of mind at the moment, but everything I read lately just seems like one giant, unedifying pissing contest.
Jacques de Molay @2.
Bolt.A. needs more fingers and toes!
Treasury Place is not a good place for a rally. The “Place” was full as was the access road. We were in the Gardens and still crowded. Retired to the pond and the young fella climbed the flagpole. Didn’t have a placard so he could not join in on the grass sliding.
Walked home, coffee at Rowena Parade. Remembered Canberra November 1975 over the coffee and educated the boy about the need to let Julia know what we are thinking.
Neil from the Young Ones looked like he had ‘turned to the bad’ on Miss Marple but it seems like he is still cool, even if he has lost most of his hair.
What more can I say about Sunday? Nothing really but relaxed, from the start, because I boycotted a Boltridden Insiders.
Finally over a cold!
Went and saw Political Asylum.
Looking forward to seeing what “Watson”‘s full-length show is like…
Watched Insiders. Don’t know why I bother.
Spent the day doing reearch on Maria Proctor Stuart Collins. Also read a bit of Beaglehole’s Life of Captain James Cook. Read a library copy years and years ago after it was first published. Good to have finally got round to getting my own copy. Huge book.
PB @ 13:
I’ve had a copy of Beaglehole’s book since I was about 13 years old — it was bought for $2 at a bookshop in Mackay.
Another good book on Cook’s Australian excursion is Ray Parkin’s “H.M. Bark Endeavour” (Miegunyah Press: 1997), if you can find a copy.
Now I’ll just go back to watching Rose Hobart in “East of Borneo”.
To the Opera House on Saturday night for the Ashkenazy-conducted SSO’s latest of its Mahler cycle. A beautiful version of Mendellsohn’s Violin Concerto to start off with, but a blockbuster 7th Symphony, complete with two harps, guitar, mandolin, tambourine and gong! Oh, and lots of cowbells.
Terangaree @ 14,
I have the Ray Parkin Endeavour book. was lucky enough to get a paperback copy.
Only up to Cook in Newfoundland in Beaglehole, but finding it fascinating.
If you’re into Cookiana the John Ledyard journal of Cook’s last voyage is fascinating reading. Also has journal of Ledyard’s trek across late 18th century Russia (where he was arrested by Catherine the Great as a spy and his failed attempt to mount an expedition to Africa in it. Ledyard was an American adventurer/explorer.
The full reference is : The Last Voyage of Captain Cook. The Collected Writings of John Ledyard. (ed. James Zug) 2003 )I think. Might be 2005, my eyesight can’t read the very small print.) Published by National Geographic in Washington, D.C.
Started cleaning my flat in preparation for the routine inspection this Wednesday.
Having a lazy Monday too, as I’m taking Canberra day as a flex day (we have unsuccessfully argued before that our proximity to Canberra means we should get Canberra day too). Did try to clean up the chook yard but the brush cutter refused to work and the mower choked on the long grass and then it started raining. It obviously wasn’t meant to be, so we are going out to lunch with friends. In a couple of hours, don’t want to rush these things.
Bolt got those figures wrong but nobody on that panel had anything else on him. He was the king. Everyone at work talking about how good Insiders was.
A lot of complaints about that wrong number but very little about the rest of the show.