One Matt Walsh, an idiot right-wing nutjob from the US, posted something on Twitter (or X as it has now been renamed by its idiot owner): “Remember when they spent…
On April 27th, South Africa celebrated the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid, as it is 30 years since the beginning of the first democratic elections in which all South…
Last month, I wrote a piece about doing geological fieldwork along the southern Tasmanian coast, which is only accessible by boat, floatplane, helicopter or a two day walk along the…
As readers of this blog may know, we are downsizing from a house to a unit, as in the former, we only use about half the space. Going through a…
The job of downsizing is an onerous one, and in our case has consisted of seven carloads of books to Lifeline, a charity which provides crisis support, suicide prevention services…
Some weeks ago, some religious nutter argued online that the rapture* was going to happen on the 9th of April. I am typing this on the 10th of April so it seems…
The blog has been a bit quiet over the last few weeks. The reason is in part because we are downsizing. We are moving from a fairly large house we…