Rather than resurrect this blog following my travel, I have re-started a blog for my various musings and mumblings at: http://mutterings201...

I'm about to head off for a trip mainly for the purpose of walking in the High Tatras, but also spending a few days in London (on the wa...

I've got a small holding in AGL, so received the offer to participate in the Retail Entitlement Offer , which in old-fashioned language ...

Sue Townsend has written a whole series of Adrian Mole diaries.  They've been around for years, but I've only just read one of them,...

Perhaps I'm just a masochist, but I continue to prepare and lodge my own tax returns. My affairs aren't particularly complex, and o...

I see that the Expedia proposal to acquire Wotif has been given an "amber light" by the ACCC.  It seems that one of the issues of...

We had a Sunday night meal at the funky Prahran Hotel , and it was good:  service was fine, food was good, prices were very reasonable (exce...

With a relatively new car , I'm still taking it to the dealer to be serviced.   But my patience is wearing thin. For one thing, the dea...

It's strawberry season, but it seems we live in a world where "bigger must be better".  I was surprised at the size of the str...

Spring's here!   We  had a couple of foggy mornings a few days back (actually, it was still winter then), but then the warm days got the...