The National Apology

“Today we honour the Indi­gen­ous peoples of this land, the oldest con­tinu­ing cul­tures in human history. We reflect on their past mis­treat­ment. We reflect in par­tic­u­lar on the mis­treat­ment of those who were stolen gen­er­a­tions – this blem­ished chapter in...

Apologies

I said I’d write about the apo­logy to indi­gen­ous Aus­trali­ans and I meant to at length, but that was before Doug and I popped La Vie en Rose into the DVD player. Intense movie and lengthy. Very, very impress­ive. I knew Edith Piaf had a hard...
Beauty in the face of sadness

Beauty in the face of sadness

In the absence of real con­tent about either the Apo­logy or what’s just happened in East Timor (I prom­ise I will post about both tomor­row), I give you this from merovingian:“There is a dif­fer­ence,” the cater­pil­lar told me, “between...

Garage Sale Tomorrow, Saturday!

Hey every­one, this is Doug typing for Ros­anne. We are having a super­duper (Ros­an­ne’s word) sale at the rear of our drive­way at 96 Spens­ley Street from 8 am till 1 pm this Sat­urday. Book­shelves, kit­ch­en­ware, clothes, CDs and DVDs… And that is...