Billy's pebble garden.

Phineas and Ferb

The best cartoon show ever.  Better than Ren and Stimpy, better that Beavis and Buthead, better than Rocko's Modern Life, better than everything Disney except Micky Mouse, even better than Astroboy.

Champagne lunch with Susie Wilson

Susie Wilson Founder and Director- Antoinette Champagne Finishing School.

Lunch at the Hotel Windsor

http://www.thehotelwindsor.com.au/

When I want a taxi, there is not one to be found anywhere, but today . . .?

Edwina Currie talks with her puppet about 'Spitting Image' | Central - ITV News

ABC Newsradio had a segment on the anniversary of Spitting Image the television puppet political satire from the Thatcher era.  They ended with a short comment from Edwina Currie that made her sound simply wishing she wasn't, but the actual interview, with her holding the puppet of her, makes it clear everyone in the British Parliament loved it and that "those who were not on were madly jealous."

Edwina Currie talks with her puppet about 'Spitting Image' | Central - ITV News

"If we weren't in it, we would like to be, and if we were in it we felt rather uncomfortable."  She describes how both sides of the British Parliament listened in seperate, but close rooms, so the laughter would alternate between them.

Edwina Currie was a Conservative politician who published Currie's Diaries, perhaps part of the meme behind the popular television program's name: The Carrie Diaries.

In memory of Baxter.

My second best friend ever, and never forgotten. 

Don't step on my blue canvas shoes.

My new shoes.

This is surely why one has a personal blog: to post news of clothing updates.

Policy Notice

New Whig, the FaceBook page I started a year or so ago, was closed down because I couldn't cope with the negative and questioning comments from a few people who wanted me to justify every post I made.  I don't know if this Blog will continue or what it will turn into (probably pornography like most Blogs) nor do I know if anyone will ever follow it, nor how to attract followers, assuming I want them, but if there are followers and they want to post comments, be warned that if I can delete them I will delete them if I don't like them: it is my Blog.

Greek Love.

Nu!!  Greek people love eating cucumbers!

World imploding.

My world is imploding, or at least the back fence came down, nearly blocking the back door.  I actually cut up the ivy and pulled the fallen fence to pieces and stacked the wood.  I have been cutting back more of the ivy, but it will take weeks even if I keep at it.  At least it is a work in progress. 

"Dueling again," I would have told my Father, a champion Fencer himself. 

This is new and exciting. My first attempt at a Blog.  I was going to call it "New Whig" after an old Facebook page I was the sole administrator, but it was taken.  I wonder by whom and what it looks like?  So this is my second choice.  It derives from my idea that local government has become too large since the amalgamations and actually the old councils should have been split up.  I think we need another level of "government" at the local, villiage-like level of a few houses clustered together.  I call it my minicipality.  So far, my immediate neighbours do not know about it, and might not agree with all my ideas, particularly about generating a local ecosystem to go with the minicipality.  In olden times, when a few families travelled together to a familial place, they would inhabit a small area and share resources.  There are already neighbouring lending systems, so this could be an extension.  Anyway, anything is up for discussion, particularly the idea that people are self-regulating at an immediate level of family, friends and surrounding neighbours.