Here’s a useless but fascinating fact for you to play with. If you add your year of birth to your age this year it comes to 2019 – happens every thousand years. Here are some examples, but give it a go yourself:born 1951, age this year 68 – – – – 1951 + 68 =…
Life
Comics of my life
We get the local paper delivered every day. I prefer reading my news in the paper (I don’t watch it on TV ever and rarely read it online). The paper is out on the driveway when we get up in the morning. Our dog, Biggles, loves to come out with us for a quick sniff…
Say no to body shaming
Last week in Australia, Instagram removed the ability to see the number of likes a post has received. You can see the likes on your own post, but that is all. They’ve done it as a trial, although I imagine it will be rolled-out around the world in time. The reason they have done it…
Mid-winter feel good story
It’s the middle of winter here and we’ve just had a blisteringly cold “polar vortex” come through. Temps have been at freezing (or not much above) for a number of days. To brighten my day I read a few feel good stories and thought I’d share one with you. Last year a not-for-profit bookstore in…
It’s a Dog’s Life
In a couple of days our furry friend, Biggles, is turning the grand old age of 13. Sadly for a dog that means he’s a geriatric (the vet’s term, not ours). But we have noticed he’s slowing down a bit, pretty much completely deaf, his eyesight isn’t what it was, has hardly any teeth left,…