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enchanted dvd One of my big concerns in regard to the budget on this trip was how I would
fund reading. Books are expensive and I love to read. I figured it could add
at least $50.00/week to the costs unless I could find a way of getting good
cheap books. So to discover some gems in [...]
We have been in Townsville since Friday and have been enjoying being back in relative civilization – if you can call Queenslanders civilized… ?
It was a big drive across and not that interesting to say the least. The section of the Barclay Highway between Mt Isa and Richmond I am officially renaming the Barclay Track [...]
Sadly… propaganda works
I wish I could easily recall a time when I heard a politician from the left side of politics actually affirm the decision of someone on the ‘right’, or vice versa. But it seems that written into the political job description is ‘except in the most embarrassingly obvious situations DISAGREE at all costs!’
It [...]
I don’t know where my links to other blogs went…
I updated to the next version of worpress and they have disappeared. So for those who are worried that they may have offended me… nope…
Just lost em!
Its pretty much impossible to travel anywhere in outback Oz and not be
struck by the impact of both alcohol and pornography. All throughout the
Kimberley’s, the NT and remote Qld are large signs identifying ‘restricted
areas’ – zones where alcohol is either strictly limited or where it is
banned and where possession of even soft porn incurs a [...]
In short – banal crap.
‘Biker Chicks’ claimed to be a study into why girls like bad boys. In reality it was a pretty boring collection of stories stitched together with a guise of academia.
Don’t waste your time on this one
21.6.2009
Yesterday we left an overnight roadside stop about 50 km out of Mataranka
and headed south expecting to get to a lake near the town of Elliot. It was
a cold night and the rumble of road trains every 15 mins or so was a
reminder to try and find campsites a little further off the main drag.
We [...]
21.6.2009
You will notice that I’m putting the date into some of these posts now, as I
am posting via email whenever we have access rather than trying to load up
wordpress. Its quicker and more efficient and doesn’t rely on me being
online to actually do it. It does seem to lose some formatting occasionally
so if some posts [...]
As I was reflecting this week on how the old time missionaries went about
their work in different cultures there was plenty to critique – plenty that
we would do differently today.
And yet there are people alive now who still give thanks to God for the work
of those people.
I imagine some future generation will one day [...]
19.6.2009
On a visit to one of the cultural centres in Kakadu I picked up this book
and was sufficiently interested by the blurb on the back page to part with
the $29.00 that was the asking price. That’s a big spend from a bloke who
has been buying his books in op shops lately!
Essentially it’s a bit of [...]