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Queenslanders! If you want to feel good about everything, get yourself a European recently arrived from their winter and take him to the beach. Mine had never seen waves above hip-height before, but he charged ...read more
The other day we found a bookstore which has a cafe in it. These are little paradices, or is it paradie. What a sweet cool feeling to leave behind the clamour of the street and ...read more
I feel so ashamed and disgusted and frightened at what's happening in my country. The inhuman way the world's oldest civilization are treated. The lack of generosity towards people needing help who arrive on our ...read more
Sunday. Drive down to the beach. Past all the worlds. Seaworld, Dreamworld, Movieworld. This tiny horseshoe strand was a favourite of mine. Now to get to it you have to round a dozen roundabouts: long ...read more
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@.............. Sister-in-law: "Yeah that was my uncle who used to be a beekeeper. But then he lost all his bees." Brother (mournfully): "Yeah. 'I used to be a beekeeper but now I'm just... a keeper.'" ...read more
We say, they have so little, yet they complain so little. They have so much suffering and stress, yet they smile so much. Secretly we think, I think, That's because they feel things less. Otherwise ...read more
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Deciding not to put up with the height shite any longer has been inneresting. 18 months' Northern Europe offered a break, I suppose, from the constant commentary that has been part of my life uninvited ...read more
Kookaburra under the eaves of the giant Storey Bridge, last night as it grew dusk and we were all gathering to watch Utopia. Laughing and laughing and laughing. The laughter echoed and magnified around the ...read more
War on drugs is not working. Except, of course, as a war: dispute over territories, profit for those who manufacture destructive products, wasted expenditure, huge casualties. I wish compassion could be administered as machine-gun bullets ...read more