What Makes Success?

What Makes Success?

I was born under a lucky star…   It’s the same with all of us rich folk. No matter how hard we try, we can never seem to do anything wrong. It just seems that everything just goes right for us, all of the time…   Take the other weekend for example…  ...
Cyber-living

Cyber-living

Lurkers – that’s what they call the people on the internet who don’t make any noise.   Lurkers don’t even register on the internet. Not even a blip do they leave. And there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of them, literally the silent majority, just peering...
Enwipenment

Enwipenment

Not so many moons ago, my life was drastically altered.   After I came across this unassuming little advert on the television…       And I simply fell in love with it !!   I think more than anything else, it was the service technician’s total...
Faking it

Faking it

Sometimes, you need to be hit over the head two or three times…   With a blunt something or other, before things can really sink in.   And that’s just what has happened to me recently. The lesson I learned – or at least the lesson I already knew but...
Taxing times

Taxing times

As I write this, the end of financial year is now fast approaching…   And I’m sitting here waiting for a woman representative to turn up from the bank I’ve been using for the last 25 years. Taxing times indeed…   And for some weird unknown...
Moon Walking

Moon Walking

Did you know that it is commonly perceived…   That Neil Armstrong’s first words on the moon surface were…   “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”?   Well I’m sorry dear readers because what he actually said was this…...
Your Help is Needed.

Your Help is Needed.

I’m sure you’ve probably heard the following quotation before…   Sometimes it is attributed to the Bible, and other times to an ancient Chinese proverb…   “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a...
Rescue me!

Rescue me!

Once upon a time, over in the depths of sunny Beenleigh…   There was a rental property that got severely trashed by its tenants.   And three months later, after a lengthy eviction process. The property was finally empty and ready for some form of...
Homeopathic Heamatology?

Homeopathic Heamatology?

Back in England a good twenty years ago now…   I once knew a junior doctor (Hello Jeanette, how’s things?)   She was always eager to save the National Health Service at any cost. Or at least eager to save it any actual cost. Either way, I think she may...
Word Play

Word Play

Having been publicly recognised as a bit of a wordy git of late…   Mainly because of my blogging prowess…   Somewhat surprisingly. I was recently invited to become the Founder President of the Logan based Philological Society (Not really). And...

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