Ever spent 61/2 hours sitting on a wooden bench waiting for a question to be answered, staring at glossy posters telling you about Respect, Duty of Care, Bullying and having Courageous Conversations? Well not really waiting for an answer, no fool would do that. No, waiting for a letter to be copied. I’d received my answer .. No! But, someone was apparently ‘seeing what they could do’. Of course someone would have actually needed to take the letter and copy…
Its about balancing quality and quantity … Life. Here I’m talking about something said to me about a little old lady in palliative care – my mother. My mother’s 82 and yes, I suppose at that stage, life may be about the balancing of quality with quantity. But what if one is say, 55 years old? Is it as easy to balance quality with quantity? Who says just what is the quantity that must be balanced with quality? Who is…
Sunday morning always seems to be the darkest day of the week regardless of the weather. You’ve spent all Saturday trying to avoid, or rather do away with, the disgrace of the week before .. and they give you a Sunday. All the good people dressing up in their finest to head off to church to listen to the emptiness of false hope in order to have the fortitude to beam with self deceit for another week in living hell….
? Its a question mark; a mark of ignorance. Usually preceded by a collection of words, it signifies that a question has been asked. Its true that it does not require, in itself, that the preceding collection of words should be answered, though, generally, when one sees this little symbol one jumps to give it an answer. An answer gives the little symbol some dignity .. even to a collection of words that appear to be undignified. So you see…
He’s been directing traffic all morning, tellin folk that they can’t get around here behind me, where my niece could back the Kings bus about in circles … He’s creating his own little community. There are 900+ of them up here in Union City Queensland trying to break a record. Guinness. No no not drinking it, its too expensive .. theyre RVs, gnomads. They’re out to form the longest line of moving recreational vehicular traffic ever. Ever! They’re going to…
Its excellent bait for carp, he says. The old fella wades over to me through the mush and says, Gimme a look, what is it your using? Ive never seen a young fella stand about for so long and not catch nothin .. . Well, I say, I’m not trying very hard, truth is I’m actually hoping not to catch one .. I don’t want to have to kill it. He chuckles. Look son, getta hold of one a these….
An old, but I’m told, a good recipe to prepare for those rainy days when the kids are nagging you and you just want to find them something productive to do. Its from the ‘Junior Fascist Cookbook’ page 34, 2019 Edition. Once you’ve tried this one theres a great recipe for coal-gas ovens on the following page called ‘How to Turn a Car into a Socialist Crypt’ but lets start with the easy one first. Now the first ingredient –…
“But he who looks to the perfect law – the law of liberty – and perseveres, not just hearers who forget, but doers who act, shall be blessed in their doing” – (James 1:23,25) Well, they finally got it right. This election is about the future. Do we have one or not. The NeoLiberal Kings version – myopic, self centred and short. A future for him and his kids he says, a future of smog and smug and tailings, a…
You know, if our economy depends on coal mining .. and we are told it does, if our future depends on cotton farming, as example, I know it sounds like I’m pickin’ on cotton but I’m not, if our economy depends on sucking water out of our only major river system to grow crops not suited to our land and that no one needs – yes, no one needs – at our shared environments expense. (I’m sure there is enough…
The Kings been praying for us again – lord I do wish he wouldn’t do that, its disgracefully demeaning. This is where the King’s got this all wrong, he believes in Hell. Hell on earth .. which is where its always been. Fascists need Hell, don’t matter that the Pope prayed it out of existence, the neoLibNats prey it right back in for our benefit. Both heaven and hell are earth bound concepts. “I believe in a fair go for…