I’m in Mt Gambier. I suspect that 99% of you don’t know where in the world Mt Gambier is, I didn’t until I looked it up on Google Maps a few days ago. I’ve flown down from Adelaide for the day to teach the first year nursing students about the skeletal system, part of my [...]
Archive for April, 2010
“You’ll never take me alive”, said he.
Saturday was our two year immi-versary, the anniversary of our immigration to Australia. I stumbled off of a 24 hour flight into to the blazing South Australian with Dr. O’C and a seven month old Boy Z. I’d never been to Australia and despite befriending several natives (including the one I had lived with for [...]
Just tell ‘em I’ve got some of those St. James Infirmary blues
I am sick. Meaning that the end of the world is nigh and the the air around me is filled with expelled virus and the soft moaning and whining of a man with the common cold.
I felt it coming on Wednesday evening and in the interest of being prepared and minimising loss of work time, [...]
Soda and His Million Piece Band "St. James Infirmary Blues" [3:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis is a public service announcement…with guitar!
On Good Friday, an eight year old boy in the Sydney suburbs was attacked and bitten in the face by his neighbours’ 18 month old Siberian husky. He required plastic surgery to repair deep gashes on his left cheek, nose and lips. This story sent a chill of recognition down my spine as did the photo [...]
Consider what he says to you, consider what’s to come
Back in the the days B.C., a four day weekend was all about rejuvenation of body and spirit. I used to gloat to friends and family about the liberal amount time off for Easter we were privy to in the Commonwealth while they were slaving away in their American sweat shops.
These days, the days of [...]
There’s a time and place for everything I’ve got to get it through
Easter’s not really my thing. It is, by it’s very nature, a religious holiday and not being a religious guy Easter falls a bit flat for me. I think Jesus had a lot of really good things to say. Shame, then, that so many of his followers are more interested in keeping women from having [...]
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