It was a long overdue computer overhaul that brought to my attention we had a combined database of images (jpeg files) totaling more than 100,000. Gee willikers as they used to say in the 1950s sit-coms, to express amazement (today expressed as WTF or Holy F*** Batman, etc). Gee willikers is described in the Urban Dictionary and elsewhere as a ‘minced oath’ – like the perfect gentleman turning a forming curse into Jeepers, Jings or…
Just as well the Commonwealth Government Budget wasn’t tabled last week – that would have been too much of a mixed message. A nation’s budget is all about redistribution of wealth, a concept worth keeping in mind at a time when £100 million of British taxpayers’ money was spent on an unnecessary coronation pageant. As has been repeatedly pointed out, Prince Charles became King by default on September 8, 2022, on the death of his…
How well I remember the coronation of Princess Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953. Then resident in Scotland, I was four years and seven months old and had just finished reading Das Kapital and was moving on to The Condition of the Working Class in England. I had also asked for Stories,Tales and Fables by the Marquis de Sade but faither said ‘Nae bairn should be reading that’ and offered instead ‘Noddy on the Runaway Train’….
Light Horse Regiment representatives, Warwick, Qld. Photo by Laurel Wilson The firewood guy wanted to deliver a ute load to our house on Tuesday. “But it’s Anzac Day,” I said. He replied: “It’s just another day to me, mate.” I was musing about this (while stacking firewood). I’m guessing he would be a Millennial (born between 1982 and 1994). The oldest of this cohort would have been nine years old when George Bush Snr authorised…