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- Written by Brian Pickering
Times are obviously very tough when you see people ‘dumper diving’ for bottles, cans and other items that can give them 10cents a pop & more!
Just starting out on my daily walk, I came across a bloke – probably in his early 30’s – going through the bins outside where we are staying in Hervey Bay QLD. I’d seen him elsewhere a few times before doing the same thing on the ‘day before garbage’ collection here.
So I stopped and asked … “you look pretty busy… is it worth going through all that stuff for a few cents a bottle?”
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- Written by Brian Lee
The modern computer is a wonderful piece of equipment isn’t it?... It can perform literally millions of tasks, with more being added all the time as fresh programs are written and larger and larger memories can be built into smaller and smaller machines.
Very few homes or offices can run efficiently without them these days, they help with the family budget, they assist in the design of new products, and they make a novelist’s effort much simpler than in the days of say, Charles Dickens, who wrote all of his fine literature with a pen and ink, on pieces of paper!
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- Written by Brian Pickering & Kaye Browne
Maybe. Certainly ‘H’ featured prominently in the life of my much-loved and now sadly recently departed father-in-law Jack.
During the many celebrations for his 90th Birthday I’d asked him… “what’s your secret to a long and happy life?” – he said simply… “I don’t worry!”
Sounds easy right?... Three little words… I - DON’T - WORRY!
And it got me thinking that there has to be a bit more to it than just those words. After all, how do you ‘not worry’?
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- Written by Brian Lee
We’re suffering a quite severe cold spell at the moment, down in deepest, darkest Gippsland (VIC), it’s a bloody freezing 5ºC as I write, (this is supposed to be an example of global warming?), and my “studio”, where I keep my computer and painting equipment, isn’t the most comfortable place to be, but I have to work somewhere and my computer is too cumbersome to move.
But sitting here, complaining to myself because there’s no one else to listen at the moment, the so-called freezing temperature made me think back to when I was a kid, living in the city of Bristol in England.
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Everywhere you go, round the coastline of Great Britain you will find beaches.
Beaches which can seem as different from one another, as a lush green English field and the Sahara Desert.
They can be composed of sand, in a whole range of colours, from near white to near black, many having been coloured by man himself and his pollution, from oil, coal and other industrial waste.
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Remember that old song from the Hedgehoppers in 1965?….
It's good news week
Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky..
Not old enough to remember the song? No problems - it was a protest song commenting on the media's obsession with bad news! (full lyrics below) - Well it seems not a lot has changed in almost 60 years has it!
WAR - COVID – MURDERS – SEXUAL ASSAULTS – DEFAMATION CASES and more!...
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- Written by Brian Lee
I was sitting here at my computer, (as I often am these days), trying to think of something that might make an interesting blog, when by sheer chance I happened to spot the name “Smith”, referring to some bloke somewhere, and the thought crossed my mind, “I wonder how many generations ago his ancestor actually was a black-smith, making household tools for customers and shoes for horses?”
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Yes, really!.. And it’s definitely NOT what some of you might be thinking OK?… 😊
Nope… way back when I was in High School, I was introduced into the 'sport' of debating.
Sport? Well debating is definitely very competitive. And, as it turns out…lots of fun.
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Do any of the following comments sound familiar to you?
* I can’t go on holiday because I don’t have enough money
* I would have bought you a better present if only I had more money
* I would have got that job if I had looked better (spent more money on myself)
* If I had more money I could do things better and be a better person
Who’s in control here? You?... or the ‘number’ in the bottom right-hand column of your bank account?
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Yes, we may consider ourselves and the ball of rock we live on to be the most important things in the whole universe, but when you start to really think about it, that is ridiculous!
That’s what I believe anyway and there are several pieces of evidence that make me as certain as I can possibly be that this is so.
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My family, on my mother’s side were born and bred in Cherry House, a lovely old cottage, that the family built themselves, or had built in the late eighteen hundreds, I’m not quite sure which.
The site of the building was at Frampton Cotterell, a small village in those days, in the heart of country Gloucestershire, in England, though the place is now almost a suburb of Bristol, as the city stretches out its tentacles, growing ever bigger!
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