My plan for this blog was that I was going to write something enchantingly witty  and engaging fairly regularly.  Unfortunately my wit petered out quickly as life took it's toll on my sense of humour.  2008 has been a tough year with major money woes, ex-spouse troubles and basically it has been all we could do to keep treading water and keeping ourselves from going under.  With all the pressure, I couldn't find anything funny to write about.  I hope that's all in the past - 2009 is all 'onwards and upwards'.  Why?  Because as of today, Ben is an official permanent Australian resident!  It's been a three year long struggle with plenty of ups and  read more »

Hmmm...not particularly happy with this but it'll have to do till I can think of something else.  I wish I had an imagination!

This is the old one...which one should I stick with?

Ben recently came upon an old mate on the internet who provided him with some photographs of Ben in the 'olden days'.  It struck me  that he looked very similar to Mick Jagger...

It also struck me that the 1980s was a time when people had really ugly sofas...  read more »

Ugh!  I am really sick of this blog theme already.  I really wish I'd used Joomla to base this site on because there's tons more themes out there for Joomla than there are for Drupal.  At the time I was developing this site though Joomla seemed too complicated for my poor little ADD muddled mind, and I needed something I could understand quickly before I lost patience and gave up the project all together.

I am one of those people who like a change fairly regularly.  If I had my way I'd be moving the furniture around into new and unique layouts when ever the fancy took me.  The problem is that I go to move a sofa and find a mound of kids' crap under it, think to myself'ah, shit!', and just push the sofa back to it's position on the wall and tiptoe away.  Occasionally I will feel like donning the toxic safety suit and cleaning it out, and we find all sorts of crap the kids lost long ago, and they exclaim over it like it's Christmas day all over again.  read more »