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We went into the city today. I absolutely love the city of Melbourne, and now that we live in the suburbs (way out in the suburbs; just up the road from us you can see horses grazing in a paddock), I don’t get to see the city nearly as much as I’d like to. I Continue reading →

A ham sandwich walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a beer. “Sorry,” the bartender answers, “we don’t serve food here.”

There are parrots and other exotic birds in the trees here. I’m infinitely fascinated by this fact. Flocks of cockatoos (common in the country) absolutely mesmerize me. So do galahs (medium sized, crested, grey birds with a pink belly, technically a type of cockatoo, and quite common). Rainbow lorakeets (which live up to their name Continue reading →

We went for a ride today and ended up going past a very neatly manicured and terribly tidy little “retirement community”. I said to Andrew, “If a necropolis is a city of the dead and a metropolis is a really big city, what’s that?” He, who has studied a fair bit of Greek, replied, “A Continue reading →

Okay, here’s an Australianism I find both amusing and odd. First, and this isn’t necessarily odd, just different, Aussies tend to make nicknames by sticking an “O” on the end of things. Like instead of saying “thingy” they may say “thingo”. I’ve also heard “yummo” instead of “yummy”. The part that I find odd is Continue reading →

Yes, I’m listening to Duran Duran, the band so nice they named it twice (actually, it’s after a character in Barbarella). Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand Just like that river drifting through the dusty land And when she shines, she really shows you all she can Oh Rio, Rio dance Continue reading →