It's always nice to hear "Jesus loves you." Unless you are in a Mexican jail.

1968 doesn't seem that long ago. Started a long career thanks to the terrific subs and senior staff at the Perth (Western Australia) Dail News who beat a modicum of sense into me.

As true now as it was in 1976. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe...

Sixty years ago today I was with my family on the Castel Felice. We'd just passed through the Suez Canal on our way to Fremantle for a new life. I had my 16th birthday cruising across the Indian Ocean. My Dad camera right.

Sunrise over our Nabiac New South Wales Australia home.

Beautiful Clivia just outside my backdoor in Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia.

There will come a time when Donald Trump is not the President of the United States. Sycophants and toadies will fear retribution as they have throughout history. Future historians will study the rise of sycophantocracy in Donald Trump's USA and its ultimate and predictable fall.

I got an advertisement for cigarettes on Facebook today. I haven't smoked since 1974 and have never mentioned smoking or cigarettes. Facebook does not have human interaction it is impossible to engage with it. It should also know that cigarette advertising is banned in Australia. Minus-6 out of 10.

The Nabiac Op Shop Shed in country New South Wales Australia has a donated upright pian for sale. It invites customers to play and often they do. This is one. youtu.be/VaivHOuzWRg

I have become inured to shooting deaths in the United States. The killing of Charlie Kirk is sad for his family but pragmatically just another. It is not surprising in a nation where gun ownership is more important than the lives of children and gun-deaths are a daily occurrence.

There is no such thing as "Government money." There are only taxpayer funds. We elect politicians to manage our money for our and the nation's benefit.

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican President

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican President

Today's Tuesday Today's Tuesday Tuesday's soup Monday is washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are. - Scaffold www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyjU...

107 years ago today my Dad was born. In his lifetime he saw the advent of air travel, the emergence of the motor vehicle, took part in a World War, and moved from the wilds of Shropshire, England, to the wilds of Mosman Park in Western Australia.

Vladimir Putin needs to take a leaf out of NATO Sec Gen Mark Rutte and heap gushing praise on President Trump. He'll get everything he wants. Let's hope he doesn't ask for the return of Alaska.

Wordle today: KEFIR. Sorry if you haven't done it yet but seriously it is obscure. Kefir is a fermented milk drink similar to a thin yogurt made from kefir grains, a specific type of mesophilic symbiotic culture. It is prepared by inoculating the milk of cows, goats, or sheep with kefir grains.

@fionadolman.bsky.social Just watching a classic Midsomer here in Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia with one of your most memorable lines: "Oh look, it's just started snowing." (The Christmas Haunting). Thanks for the memories.

Not much reporting here in Australia on the death of Tom Lehrer (97), the brilliant satirist of the 1960s. Not surprising considering he retired 60 years ago. He was one of my heroes (along with people like Pete Seeger)) who resonated with my emerging psyche. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoB...

My wife calls me "The Five Dwarfs." Why five I asked? "Because you are Dopey, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy and Happy," she said.

The media industry is evolving faster than accountants can think. It has got rid of those who anticipated change, thought of new ways of doing things and planned for the future. Just chugging along doing the same things expecting different results and waiting for the grim reaper to wield his scythe.

Gotta love NATO for playing President Trump like a Stradivarius violin. Praise him, suck up to him, bow down to him and ensure continued (if not increased) US funding for NATO. Brilliant.

In 1968 I was in the draft for conscription to fight in Vietnam. Thanks to pure luck I wasn't chosen. It was an unwinnable war led by the United States. Here we are 57 years later with the United States bombing Iran. Australia must stay out of another unwinnable war.

The United States has gone to war and we find out through social media. Australia must distance itself.

I listed some stools for sale on Marketplace but people said they were shit.

Consider this. Domestic unrest and an international war are a reason for declaring martial law. The United States is on the brink of both meaning the military take control and elections cancelled. President Trump is a front man for a far bigger agenda.

Red sky at night. Our place at Nabiac New South Wales Australia.

The Abrahamic religions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity) all have the Old Testament in common and worship the same God in different ways. It looks like their God has turned her/his back on them and said: "OK folks. Get on with it and destroy each other."

The United States backed and financed Israeli regime is taking us to the brink of a conflict in which only innocents will suffer. The only beneficiaries' arms manufacturers and banks.

An observation from an Australian: Troops facing off against citizens must have the backing of the military leadership. Forget Trump, he's a pawn in the game.

Dawn is the best time of the day. Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia on my walk with Ron this morning.

Sunrise at Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia.

Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey! Taco, taco man (Taco man) I've got to be a taco man I've got to be a taco, taco man I've got to be a taco! Ow! (with profound apologies to the Village People who deserve better)

The sun rises over Nabiac (New South Wales, Australia) and all is well.

For the first time in weeks, a sunrise at our Nabiac (Australia) home.

Didn't empty the rain gauge yesterday here in Nabiac, Australia because it was raining too hard. The gauge holds 26mm and then overflows into the bigger container. It took seven fills of the gauge. All up around 186mm or more than 7.3 inches in 48 hours. Easing now TTG.

With the rain easing here in Nabiac, Australia, Ron and I went for a walk but had to cut it short. Water over the road.

I've stopped doing the rain dance but the downpours continue here in Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia.

Record breaking rains over the past few days here on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Roads cut, flooding, rescues by the dozen. I am at Nabiac and here's some rain video.

While the discussion centers on voluntary euthanasia I believe that in some circumstances there could be an argument for compulsory euthanasia.

Here in Australia it is Autumn. Our liquid amber showing its colours.

You know you are getting old when the Pope is younger than you.

Constant rain has weakened some of our massive gum trees here in Nabiac (New South Wales, Australia). Glad I wasn't standing underneath when this branch fell on our front lawn.

This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to @VoteCompass. Puts me about where I expected to be, right in the middle. #AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/1tS1PVAjBwd7...

Before voting in the May 3 Australian election ask the candidates: "Do you support a nuclear power station in the electorate?" The other couple I'd throw in: "Do you support AUKUS?"; "Please list in order of importance the following: a) your electorate b) your party c) the nation.

Do people who live in Darawank (New South Wales, Australia) call themselves Darawankers? Just curious.

Get three behind me Satan ..... and push.

Very clever.

If I was Elon Musk, as a South African, immigrant, I'd be worried ICE were coming for me and deporting me to a foreign prison.

Dear Anti-vaxxers, I am going to get my winter flu shot tomorrow, so there. Yours, me. (I'm in Australia so we are just coming into winter).