It is school holidays and if you’re from a regional area not in lockdown, it’s a good time to visit your favourite resort. Wintry scenes at the top of Thredbo on Monday arvo. Photo: Elliss Mia Clift, running a snowy line in Mt Buller yesterday. Photo: Tony Harrington Wind drift...
Holidays whose date shift slightly include Brazilian Day on the first Sunday of the month. There is also Labor Day on the First Wednesday, National Suicide Prevention Week the first Sunday after September 4 and National Grandparents’ Day the first Sunday after the first Monda...
So, it’s school holidays. You’d think I’d be posting like a mad woman wouldn’t you -making up for all of the time I couldn’t post because work was getting in the way. Well. I haven’t been. I’ve been busy making connections. Working together 2 make a difference has attrac...
via Georgian medals, Victorian adverts and pre-decimal coins. One of the staple items was the mass produced commemorative medal. They really started in a big way with Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and ended in the 1930s with a flurry of royal events – George V’s Jubilee...
Her last name was a synonym in Victorian times for sadistic female poisoner. Also said to have committed incest with her father and brother. Why she may not have been that bad: Technically, this could apply to her family since the Borgias were no more murderous than any other prominent ...
As a teenager, my first choice of reading had always been science fiction, but I didn’t always have access to it. When I spent the holidays with my parents in the Middle East, my reading was often limited to the books they owned. Which meant I read some right crap – Judith Krantz...
we negate the need to look at our own actions and responsibilities. In the Victorian era, when wealth was also polarised, there was at least a shared moral code, broad sense of civic duty and collective responsibility. People, you might say, remained human. Nowadays, increasingly, individuals...
Also because of this reputation, we got hundreds of people who had same ideas for holidays with our expectation. So we got a pretty heavy traffic to wait in a unbelievable line to enter to the parking lot of the beach. We spent over 2 hours to crawl the several miles very very slowly...
AS:We worked in a couple different phases. The first phase involved the three core guys of the project. Myself, Dave Ellefson and Mike Portnoy were brought together by our mutual friend Mark Menghi. The four of us got together during the holidays and did our first session. A few weeks ...
(I would be lying if I said I was surprised--Mouse is a social butterfly, and I'm still trying to figure out where it comes from as it is certainly not me and her dad) and then losing her school folder with her week's homework in it. The homework honeymoon has passed and now ...