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¶ Christmas

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

A rather special present from Jen on Christmas day.
“Come and feel here!!” she indicates just below her navel…..
A tiny lump… our child.
She was warned that one day she’d be Barefoot Pregnant and In the Kitchen.

¶ Holiday greetings for the 21st century

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Holiday Greetings to Everyone
I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends, but it is so
difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending
someone.
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for
an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress,
non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday,
practiced […]

¶ Challenges for the future!

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Roughly 9 years ago I climbed on a bus in Nepal,
I managed, much to the amusement of all on the bus, to crack my head
on the roof as I got on.
One person who was laughing was a tiny Australian chick,
cute but obviously callous hearted,
she just smiled at my pain along with the others.
I managed […]

¶ Sad news

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

The guy who we helped cut out of the wreckage of his car died the next day.

¶ Holy smoke Batman

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Here’s a piccy from space of the smoke from the bus fires.
TAsmania is to the bottom of the Picture, the mainland is to the top!

¶ First call

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Driving home yesterday about 10km from home my pager went off.
There had been a serious road crash about 3km ahead and the fire brigade was called to attend just in case of fire. [ see http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,20930622-3462,00.html ].
Dressed in my usual scruff order [shorts and sand shoes] I was of no use until the fire truck […]

¶ Second last school on Earth

Monday, December 11th, 2006

I’m being transfered……..To Geeveston.
To the second southern most school in Australia.
Its catchement area include a National Park that takes the South Western corner of the state and many of our logging communities (bette rget the Green Party stickers off the car!).
Any further south and I’d have more penguins than kids.
But it is so much closer […]

¶ True Blue

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Well, after all the fuss the Australian Dept of Immigration has lowered it standards one last time and said yes I can become a citizen.
SO in a few months I’ll have dual nationality.

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