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"She was quite excited (not due to consuming too much sugar either) and said "do you want to see the Pope on Sunday?"... I kept expecting the Pope to break into a karaoke session but alas for me he didn't" There I was fully engrossed with work matters, for a change, when I received a phone call. It was from the wife aka 'No Worries'. She was quite excited (not due to consuming too much sugar either) and said "do you want to see the Pope on Sunday?" After a few seconds thinking I said "yeah, why not". "Cool" exclaimed No Worries. "I have tickets for us and the gals" I was quite excited as it's not every day that you get to see the Pope. Even though we were not Catholics it would be a great experience, especially for our daughters. A couple of days later I picked up a leaflet about getting to Randwick Racecourse for Sunday's big bash (aka 'the Pope does Sydney"). More that 400,000 pilgrims wer...

"Methinks that the Catholic Church must be using an egg timer to define how many hours there are in a day!... It's a fair bet to assume that the Pope will win the 11.50 race by a head!" Sydney is in the middle of an attack. This is not an ordinary attack either. Don't panic, dear reader, it's not by a military force wanting to take over Australia's number one city. It's not even by the Bogong moths who, like clockwork, hit the city in their millions every year and it's certainly not by accountants attending a tax convention. It is in fact by Catholic pilgrims from all corners of the earth! Sydney is currently half way through the World Youth Day celebrations. To most people a day is 24 hours. For this event the 'day' lasts 6 days. Methinks that the Catholic Church must be using an egg timer to define how many hours there are in a day! Anyway, there are approximately 200,000 pilgrims currently in Sydney. I have this week seen a few clerg...