This is a story my dad told us when we were kids.  Somehow, I don’t think it’s true, but ah well, it does explain things…

Once upon a time there was an important meeting held at the council hall for all dogs to attend.  Dogs turned up from all over the world, and on arriving at the conference they were asked to take off their butts and  hang them on a peg in the foyer.  The meeting was halfway through when the building’s fire alarm suddenly went off.  Blind panic ensued, and the dogs raced out of the building, quickly grabbing any butt they could find as they passed through the foyer.

Once they were all safely out, they began to realise that they didn’t have their own butt.  From that time onwards, whenever a dog meets another dog, he checks to see if that dog is wearing his original, wayward behind.

The End (hey, that’s a pun!)

One could be forgiven for thinking Armageddon had come to our city this week.  A huge dust storm cast Brisbane in a weird orange glow and coated everything with a layer of red.  The dust apparently came from western New South Wales.  Here’s a picture of what our street usually looks like (on a Thursday – bin day!)…

And this is what it looked like all day during the dust storm…

Apparently there’s another one coming tomorrow.  I was driving along this morning under blue skies, but above the horizon in the distance I could see a definite line of the dust haze which is probably the encroaching dust storm.

Bribie Island aka 'Bribery' Island

Maddy is going to Bribie Island with her uncle Dave this weekend, and is all excited. She said to Ben “Ben! I need a suitcase to take to Bribery Island!”

So he gave her a knapsack to take to ‘Bribery’ Island, and she began to look through her drawers in her bedroom for clothes to take.

“Hmmm…” she said to herself, “Some of these clothes I got years ago but they still fit because I’m so small… I’ll take that as a compliment to myself!”