Being an old soccer player from way back, I have of course been watching the men’s World Cup which is being played in Canada, the US and Mexico. This time…
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It has been said to me by more people than I can remember, that ‘laughter is the best medicine’. In the past, I have often wondered if indeed it is…
In 1992, I went to Russia and Kazakhstan on what was supposed to be an Australia-USSR science agreement exchange program visit (the USSR had ceased to exist at this time,…
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…
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…
We went and checked the mail today after a few days of not doing so. Our post office box was pretty full, which is fairly unusual. The contents were stuffed…
It is always difficult when a close relative dies, but when they are in their late eighties and have had a good, happy life, it is not so hard to…
