Have a Pie Today

Have a Pie Today

I have had a fondness for the mathematical constant ? (pi) ever since I did maths at school and for some reason have found it useful all my life. So I was delighted to discover that it is celebrated. Wikipedia tells us that Pi Day is an annual celebration of the...
Bah! Humbug!

Bah! Humbug!

My wife just loves Christmas and everything about it. Oneoutstanding feature of her love of it is her penchant for putting up Christmas decorations, which has grown every year of our marriage into a massive display. They are really beautiful and she loves it so I...
Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

Without being cynical there have been lots of positive outcomes as a result of the Covid crisis although we have only tended to whinge about the negatives. For example, I am sure that one of my good mates would no longer be with us if it were not for Covid. He and his...
Life moves on

Life moves on

It’s Christmas week (at least for me) and the week before summer holidays (to be politically correct). I know you’ll be busy doing all those things you just have to do so I won’t ask you to read an article, but rather just look at some print ads you fortunately...
A few words

A few words

You may not live in Victoria but I think you’ll understand, that with us being plunged into a second lockdown, there are quite a few people looking for scapegoats and, in our multicultural community, some are looking with biased eyes at people racially different to...
Farewell Common Sense

Farewell Common Sense

I am unable to discover who the original author of this much circulated essay was so, if I am breaching anybody’s copyright please forgive me. However, it’s so relevant to the times in which we live, that I publish it for your thought and circulation. An Obituary...