Occasionally GOF has trouble with pesky critters who invade his vegetable garden, or neighbours who impinge upon his solitude. In Australia you need to have an acceptable reason to own a firearm, have no criminal record, and pass a written safety examination to be granted a licence to use one. Unfortunately an annoying neighbour does [...]
Check this out and a big thankyou to sister Debra for sending this one. I would never have imagined that a group of ukuleles could sound so good but with just a little assistance for the bass, this is the result. Perhaps Mad Tanta can fill me in on more details but for starters there [...]
I could grow to love Opera. Check out this stunning effort in a food court from the Opera Company of Philly. This is the sort of thing Americans do so well. Art and music in public spaces is a wonderful thing and I would love to stumble over something this beautiful when out shopping. Imagine [...]
Every so often on the Net you stumble upon something that gladdens your heart. This is one such clip filmed in New York.
Why should the city kids have all the fun? I’m delighted to announce that Horsham will be scoring a session of the Free Range Science program on Wednesday August 25, 6-7.30pm, Wesley Performing Arts Centre, cnr Roberts Ave and Urquhart St. This one is about the brain and after going to the last program in [...]
GOF has an email friend on the other side of the world. He has never met her, and probably never will, and yet we have been able to share so many life events, both happy and sad, over the years. Her heroine is her Mom, the family matriarch, who navigated her family through many difficult [...]
GOF’s reminder of Eartha Kitt in his pick of favourite voices caused me to check out YouTube. I didn’t find Fever but there are plenty of others by this legendary songstress. Enjoy!!
Folks, My learning curve just got a whole lot steeper. Here’s my account of yesterday’s flight. Fairly decent weather for flying today. Not totally clear skies as there were thick cumulus clouds around, probably about 3 Oktas coverage by my simple reckoning as I start to learn to identify and describe cloud conditions. A few [...]
It’s not every day iGoogle Reader brings me such shocking news, but this morning I discovered my namesake has passed away and even more interestingly in Clonmel Tipperary where my branch of the family came from in the late 1800s. This is probably good enough for one of Snowy’s Friday Night Philosophy blogs. The [...]