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An explosion of sunshine
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Today Nada bought me oranges from her mother’s garden. I felt like someone in a Jan Van Eyck painting for whom oranges would have been a very special gift indeed – a symbol of wealth and privilege. So today I felt honoured to receive beautiful, fresh oranges, like an explosion of sunshine, from a [...]
Erupting Volcano
Monday, July 16th, 2007
Click here to learn how to build an erupting volcano
Well, it’s the last day of the school holidays and, like our Premier Morris Iemma who also disappeared from duty to be with his family, I’m baaaaaaaaaaaack!
The boys and I decided to finish the holidays “with a bang not a whimper”. Last night we added [...]
Greasy Palms
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
On the 18th April this year I started this blog with Winston Churchill’s quote:
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”Sir Winston ChurchillNovember 12, 1936
I’ve now been doing one new personal and one political [...]