Stewart Richmond

Daily there is an outpouring of "allege". Alleged motor vehicle crashes, stabbings, and robberies. 1. It is the fault of journalism teachers and sub-editors. 2. Media lawyers should be counselling them but they don't watch the product. 3. A charge is the allegation making the word redundant.

Attaching the trailer this morning it suddenly moved forward trapping my hand against the ute. It really hurt but when I pulled my hand away not a mark or pain. I was saved by my wedding ring which took the main force. You can see how it was squashed. One of the many reasons for getting married!

All around my hat I will wear the green willow.

And then there are we self funded retirees who get nothing from Government at any level, rely on historically low interest rates for income and still pay tax. Punished for working hard and saving.

When you are finished any chance of nipping up to Nabiac and doing our place?

I thought of this in December
And forgot but now I remember.
My epitaph proud on my headstone
"He was a Country Member".

Our turmeric plant is flowering here in Nabiac New South Wales Australia.

As a self-funded retiree I'd like to see interest rates around 12%. 20% would be better but 12 will do.

My wife Lorraine thinned out Yuccas near the house and planted the removed stems around the place. One of them has now flowered. We're in Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia.

"Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost."
-- The Great Dictator (1940)

ICE agents on their day off?

Here's hoping the people of the United States don't decide the island of Australia is needed for national security.

Here's hoping the citizens of the United States don't decide Australia's huge natural gas, oil, iron ore, and other minerals, especially lithium, were stolen from them.

New Year's Eve 2126. You and everyone you know will be dead. That is all.

Carpe annum.

Carpe annum.

The best response to every question every time: "whatever."

2026. Carpe annum.

Bushfires here at Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia. About a 100 metres fom our place but on the other side of the road. Chopper getting hot spots. Firies doing a terrific job.

Merry Christmas and season's greetings to you all from the teeming metropolis of Nabiac on the mid-North coast of New South Wales, Australia. May you have peace and harmony in your life. May 2026 bring you happiness and prosperity and most of all good health.

Ron the Retired adopting a Christmas pose.

Random flower pics from our garden, mainly agapanthus, in Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia.

YouTube video by The19eighties Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl - Top Of The Pops

And now for my favourite Christmas song. Fairytale of New York. Both Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan pushing up daisies.
"The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells are ringing out
For Christmas Day."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTs5...

YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video

"Throughout centuries in every country
We faced the wrath and felt the pain
Of the tyrant's sword or the henchman's boot
For another rich man's gain
In the endless quest for wealth and power
They stomp us down with great disdain."
- Dropkick Murphys

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRH...

Sea bed next to the Ocean Swimming Pool, Forster, New South Wales, Australia.

YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys Dropkick Murphys - "The Season's Upon Us" (Video)

My second favourite Christmas song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-...

I once put ginger in a curry. The family were outraged. They really loved that cat.

It's always nice to hear "Jesus loves you."

Unless you are in a Mexican jail.

1968 doesn't seem that long ago. Started a long career thanks to the terrific subs and senior staff at the Perth (Western Australia) Dail News who beat a modicum of sense into me.

YouTube video by Gart Williams Ned Beatty's NETWORK speech-by Paddy Chayefsky

As true now as it was in 1976.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe...