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27th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (0)
From Slim Dusty’s 1957 hit, The Pub With No Beer:
It’s lonesome away, from your kindred and all
By the campfire at night, where the wild dingos call
But there’s nothing so lonesome, so morbid or drear,
Than to stand in the bar, of a pub with no beer.
27th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (2)
My parents have just come back from a dear-friend’s funeral, a chap called Rex Haythornethwaite.
Rex’s Claim to Fame was that he was once quoted in the national papers in Britain as saying women weren’t strong enough to enter his village Conker Championship; a competition he had devised and organised…
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26th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (0)
The following is an except from Young Men at War: A Case by Case Study of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Patricia Barber, Ph.D. M.F.C.C. Duke University Press, 1986…
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25th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (0)
The behaviour and bravery of people during war time never ceases to amaze me. Here the Daily Telegraph reports on the death of Major-General Alois Siska:
Major-General Alois Siska, who has died aged 89, spent six days in an open dinghy on the North Sea before being captured on the Dutch coast and sent to Colditz Castle; however, when he returned to Prague from two years’ hospital treatment in England after the war, he was not welcomed as a hero, but jailed and forced to do menial jobs…
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19th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (2)
The Daily Telegraph always has interesting obituries:
Anton Barichievich, otherwise known as “the Great Antonio”, who has died aged 77, earned two entries in the Guinness Book of Records, first in 1952 when he pulled a 433-tonne train along the tracks for 19.8 metres, and secondly in 1960 when he pulled four buses loaded with passengers along St Catherine Street, Montreal…
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6th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (0)
Mum pointed out a quote by Mark Twain in today’s paper:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I wonder if she’s hinting at anything?