A colander may have been more useful!

I have sent my Canadian friend (a fellow-'inmate' from my days on Bougainville Island) a 2011-calendar of the beautiful South Coast.

Using this Australian calendar, he'll be one day ahead for the whole year, suffering from Mondayitis on a Sunday and expecting to get paid on a Thursday.

Perhaps a colander for his wife Jean would have been more useful?

Calendar image of beautiful Bermagui just 'down the road' from Batemans Bay

Bibliomania

Just returned from the Bay where I visited my favourite second-hand bookshop.

Pity that not all of their books are for sale!

Still, I found a copy - in almost mint-condition - of Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything - The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary and, for that road less travelled by, Slow Journeys - The pleasures of travelling by foot by Gillian Souter.

The first post

Remembrance Day - and, right on cue, I have set the first post for "'Riverbend"'s new fence.

(No, it is not set in concrete yet and, yes, I know it is leaning!)

You don't need to speak Chinese to get the message

Here's where we are and how we got there:

1. Banks (with cheerleading and cash from the Fed) inflated house prices by giving insane loans to any buyer who could stand up and breathe.

2. The inevitable happened and people woke up and realized a plywood ranch house on a swamp in Florida is not worth half a million dollars.

3. The bankers got their fees and now mortgage holders are left holding the bag and many are folding voluntarily and involuntarily.

4. To make sure the Wall Street banks got paid, the US government bailed out AIG which insured hundreds of billions of dollars worth a FRAUDULENTLY created loan packages that were sold to investors all over the world.

5. Trillions of dollars are being vaporized as we speak and the banker-criminals responsible are not only not being held to account, they are paying themselves record bonuses.

"We're going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line ..."

... if the Siegfried Line's still there".

It is! Here it is:

Click on picture to find out how we deal with cultural troglodytes
who engage in the finger-gesture. Ve haf our vays!

Building the 'Grand Staircase' in the gap of the wall to lead up to the tennis court and obtaining the dozens and dozens of truckloads of landfill to enlarge the tennis court area right up to the 'Siegfried Line' will be Stage II and III of the project!


In the meantime, work will start on the fence along the main gate! The hardwood arrives next week and the new fence should be up and running down to the river by the end of the month!