Moving

It's been a while and it has been quite a year one way or the other.

I am discontinuing this blog but I will be back with a new blog soon..so watch this space for further info.

The cat's whiskers

Well, look at you !

Australian election results

2016 a "mandate for everybody"  

        

Election-speak

Scary biscuits..

There is still hope.....

Brexit

To be or not to be...?

23rd June 2016

Ho Hum....

Jabberwocky

 

 

Holy Smoke!

Bacon, anyone?

Refugees

Australia's refugee problem

May you live......

in interesting times......(Chinese malediction)

The twittering classes have been at it , this time signing off on a tweet posted to the ABC program
Q & A with what has been labelled a "lewd" twitter.
All this caused a bit of a rukus with the Minsiter for Communication, Malcolm Turnbull, demanding answers from the ABC , again.
It's been an interesting week with signs that the giant manufacturing economy of China bursting at the seams and investors' cash  quickly evaporating into cyber space .
A bit nervy all round with governments assuring one and all that this is merely an overdue correction.  Hope this appeals to the highly illogical markets..they're all a bit mad, even at the best of times.!

Re: Cycling

 A better way

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Rank and authority a la Aussie

Irreverence?

 No respecter of authority the Aussie larriken is the stuff of legends. There's a certain vicarious thrill experienced by Ron, Gordie or Bazza at seeing company executives fisticuffing away on the street or giving the Bronx Cheer to pompous Colonel Blimps. 

However a funny thing happens where kids are involved ;this is where irreverent behaviour is not the done thing. In the womb,   Aussie foetuses are already genetically equipped with  footy boots, tennis racquets,cricket bats and budgie smugglers. They are then moulded and shaped by the elder generations based on sporting models and heroes. This is where larrikenism stops. Dead in its tracks.

Bad show , Nick! (Kyrgios).Not a good example for kids.  The fact that he is temperamental hasn't helped..if he were to win a bit more might it be a different story?

Public Opinion

Far from the maddening crowd........??

Seems to be much ado ..about what?

Making a small fortune

into a smaller one....

 The Shanghai stock market has turned into a shock market.The bears are running amok.Real Estate gurus are hinting that this will have a flow on effect on the Sydney property market. Why? God knows. More than likely it's the Chinese Mr and Mrs Cheungs who have taken a mega hit; the tabloids identify them as the Mum and Dad investors. These have been gambling like billy-oh , shovelling housekeeping yuan into brokers' pockets like there's no tomorrow. 
The big investors, the multi rich ,some of  whom make Murdoch look like a pauper, will have been  cleaning up. It's called shorting.
There are a few universal truths that prevail in global stock exchanges. Firstly only invest what you can afford to lose, secondly do your homework and last but not least, don't panic.
Simples. Innit?

The more things change..

the more they are the same.

It's been going on for a while now and it's not looking as if it'll die down anytime soon.
New ways and new ideas can be particularly scary. 

The Texan country singer, humorist and columnist , with the appealing name of Kinky Friedman once remarked "I support gay marriage.I believe they have the right to be as  miserable as the rest of us."

 So, then, is marriage miserable? Based on figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics one in three marriages end in divorce . To be fair however this rate has been decreasing of late 

So what impact will same sex marriages have on statistics? No idea, because in reality the whole question is complex , too complex to untangle. It's a bubbling, seething quagmire of emotions and chaos. Get just two human beings together and you automatically have an frustrating  conundrum.

Finally, while on the subject  ,according to Discovery, the U.S. television channel,  there exists a hermaphrodite worm which has sex with its head.This method of reproduction is known as "selfing" not to be confused with "selfies" .

 Selfies involve heads, don't they? 
 Read into that whatever you will!

Stuck between a moussaka and a hard frickadelle

Own Goal or levelling the score?

This has been going on for so long I'm getting a thumping headache from the endless to-ing and fro-ing. Heartily sick of it, actually.

It must be the Greek way to live in an endless stat of chaos, where tomorrow will look after itself and yesterday is something to be talked about and analysed "ad nauseam" !

Anglo Saxon observers outside the European Union may be regarding this as the Armageddon of policies and high minded but impractical ideals where it all  unravels...at last!

From the sides there is the deafening sound of silence as fellow members of the basket case coterie, Spain, Italy and Portugal watch the endless procession of concerned dignitaries and ministers traipse between  EU member countries.

When will it all end? Hopefully soon and peacefully; peace after all was one of the prime objectives of the Union.

Vlad and Kim

 New relations

Having displeased his traditional ally , China, Kim Jong-un  is shifting his attention towards Russia  . Vladimir has  made himself unpopular with the West as a result of his actions in Crimea and Ukraine and is feeling the heat.
Putin has cancelled some of North Korea's debt and both countries intend to step up their trade in the coming year.
Kim, the Great Leader beloved everywhere in Pyongyang has not met one single world leader. Perhaps they don't like his haircut. It seems that Kim  might be plumping for Putin to make this  first major step outside his North Korea.
It seems both pariahs are looking for a meaningful relationship.....Aw...

                "Go on big fella.Gimme a hug!"

Vale Malcolm Fraser

RIP

1930-2015

There have been numerous reports as to the whereabouts of one, Vladimir Putin.
I one were to string all the rumours together you'd get the following story behind his absence,
Vlad went off to Switzerland to visit his mistress who is in the process, it is said, of delivering another little Vlad into the world. While waiting he went for a walkabout to Ukraine but just after his arrival he was struck by the                over-sixties disease,  a condition viewed by those under thirty as terminal, seriously terminal. On hearing this a coup was plotted and executed by those who didn't approve of Vlad's handling of Ukraine. His ETA back in Russia is unknown but the place is in a state of chaos as nobody else can handle Russia.