“Let them eat cake” (actually the strict translation is ‘Let them eat brioche’) is a quote attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution and wife of the…
In my last post on this blog, which was written almost two months ago, I stated that while I hadn’t posted anything for about a month, I was ‘getting back…
Having sold our house, getting rid of stuff before the removalists arrived, and moving out, we are now ‘of no fixed address’. To take advantage of the situation, we have…
Some time ago, I wrote a piece in support of Trove, which was in danger of not being funded properly to guarantee its continuation. In that article, I related a…
The host of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Insiders show, David Speers apparently referred to Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s likely nominee for President of the US in the upcoming election,…
As readers will know, we are downsizing and have three beds to get rid of before we move. While you can sell a bed frame/base fairly easily, it is difficult…
Denisova cave, situated in the foothills of Siberia’s Altai Mountains, is the only site in the world known to have been occupied by both archaic human groups (Neanderthals and Denisovans)…
We have been flat chat here getting ready to pack up and decamp. On top of that, I have been up to my armpits in an editing job (a book…
As a bit of a giggle, a mate of mine sent me a short blurb from the Minerals Council of Australia, one of the lobby groups for the mining industry….
In the attempt to downsize one has to sell one’s home and, to do that, one has to engage a real estate agent. It is they who advise you on…
Regular readers of this blog maybe remember our travails with our internet connection from a couple of years ago, where it took months to actually fix the problem, with many…
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