Favourite Side Character Warning: Spoilers! Every story has a main character, around whom all the action revolves. However, it would not be much of a story if it weren’t populated by many more minor characters to interact with our hero…. Read More ›
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Bloody, Bloody, Bloody (The Great Australian Adjective)
This bloody town’s a bloody cuss, No bloody tram, no bloody bus, And no one cares for bloody us, Oh, bloody bloody bloody! The bloody roads are bloody bad, The bloody folks are bloody mad, They even say — You… Read More ›
What Would You Say?
If you had the attention of the entire world for two minutes, what would you say? Personally, I would do whatever I could to avoid being in this situation. Think about it. Suddenly you are so famous that everybody in… Read More ›
Rosamond Siemon in ‘The Eccentric Mr Wienholt’
“Sadly, the world’s need for heroes includes, as a rule, the need for heroes’ deaths.”
Spending My Jury Cheque
My jury check finally arrived – Yaay! It cleared this week, so I have been spending, spending, spending. The first thing I bought was a Wii. It will technically belong to me to avoid any arguments, but I really bought… Read More ›
Books I Read In February 2009
Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients by Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels The Darwin Awards: 180 True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker by Wendy Northcutt This is the Way the World… Read More ›
Bingo!
Some interesting facts about your Gran’s favourite game: Bingo has existed in some form since at least the early 1500s, when there were already established lottery games played in Italy. In British slang, bingo wings is the name given to… Read More ›
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 