Monthly Archives: April 2012

Star Wars Monopoly: yes, grown-ups play it!

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

I have just returned from a meeting of the Melbourne Science Fiction Club, (the oldest science fiction club in the Southern Hemisphere) where the club had a “board games” night. I ended up on a table playing – you guessed … Continue reading →

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Losing someone

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

I just read a very moving post on the blog by Debra Kristi  http://debrakristi.wordpress.com/  about this being the 15th anniversary of the last day she saw her sister alive. There is a photo of the two of them together. She … Continue reading →

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The world is getting stranger – marijuana from a vending machine.

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

Well, according to news items, a club in New Zealand  has a vending machine that dispenses 1 gram bags of marijuana for NZ$20 (about US$15) for “medicinal” purposes. The club is owned by the National Organisation for the Reform of … Continue reading →

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For Novel Writers, how to make a believable male a woman would want to fall in love with.

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Over at Writers in the Storm Blog Charlotte Carter has written a simply supurb piece on how to write a male that your female character would be willing to fall in love with. I’m not going  to reproduce the whole … Continue reading →

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Members of “Pussy Riot” rock group jailed in Russia for 7 years over protest song.

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

I In Moscow  three members of an all-female rock group called “Pussy Riot” are under arrest for performing an impromptu performance in a Russian church. The group usually perform in skimpy dresses and  balaclavas. Their membership seems to fluctuate between 7 and … Continue reading →

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Have you ever tried to lose weight, and what worked for you?

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

Have you ever tried to lose weight? Well, for two months now, I’ve been trying.  I started by trying to follow the Atkins diet. Atkins is low carb high protein. It’s not about counting calorie.s I stopped buying bread, and … Continue reading →

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How do you speak to a human at Hotmail??

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

A couple of days ago my computer got a virus that sent bogus emails out to everyone I knew. It was one of those “click on this blue  link for some amazing photos” things. I was dumb. Trouble is when … Continue reading →

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How do you deal with bad news?

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Imagine being 38 and having osteoarthritis in the hips. I just returned from hearing Wil Anderson, an Australian comedian at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Wil is well known in Australia. He’s had hip pains for the last six years, takes pain killers, … Continue reading →

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Bloody Good Song

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

This has nothing to do with writing or travel, or anything except I just saw this on youtube and loved it. Walk Off The Earth doing an Adele cover “Someone Like You”. Bloody Brilliant.

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