After six weeks of waiting I was finally able to replace the trendy newspaper curtains with real blinds yesterday.
However it turns out the girl who took the measurements, can’t measure and transcribe accurately at the same time. Two of the bedroom windows were cut for 600 drops instead of 1295 drops…
So… I have black out [...]
Quotes from George W. Bush.
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.â€
“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.â€
“Most imports are from outside of the countryâ€
“The thing that’s wrong with the French is that they don’t have [...]
At the risk of revealing my own level of ignorance I would like to propose a radical solution for the water talk that is of concern to many on the East Coast of Australia these days.
Charge market value for water.
There it is. This solution is inspired by my belief in the methods of the Pigou [...]
I have just done the weekly washing, don’t have a dryer yet. Looks a bit overcast outside, should I be placing the washing on the line?
A quick check of the very useful BOM site reveals those clouds are too close. Best to wait.
I went for a bike ride this morning.
My friend Bruce showed me the excellent bike paths around the north of Brisbane. In the end we rode about 20k’s from Toombul Shopping Town to Nudgee Beach and didn’t have to mess with the traffic which I always had to do when riding a bike on [...]
Lithuania has thousands of fresh water lakes, just how many perhaps nobody knows.
In summer it’s a beautiful thing to wander down for a swim in the refreshing water and have a picnic and barbeque nearby. In winter mostly they are frozen over and offer skating and fishing possibilities.
Also as well as fresh water lakes I [...]