My view and thoughts on everything!

" In fact, I keep expecting to see concrete cows everywhere!...“Daddy, which shop does Kevin Rudd work in?” My initial response was to say “a closed shop” but I bit my tongue" It all happened just over a week ago. No Worries and I were relaxing at home when all of a sudden I had an idea. Now this is not a common event. Far from it, really. So when this happened I got very excited. The idea revolved around the forthcoming NSW State holiday (Labour Day). As the long weekend was approaching faster than a City Rail train I though it would be good to take our daughters to Canberra for the Floriade (flower festival) and also to see Parliament House. They are now of an age where they would probably appreciate the excursion to Australia’s capital. No Worries concurred with me. As the drive from Sydney to Canberra is just under three hours all we needed to do was find some accommodation and we were set. Courtesy of Mr Google, this didn’t take too long to arrange. The next day we infor...

"The subject of my laughter was because the bookmark was advertising, wait for it, the 'National Public Toilet Map'!!...After all, I was in Canberra, a city that has 'circuits' instead of roundabouts and a Parliament that has a lawn on its roof" A couple of days ago, my wife and I thought we would drive down to Canberra and attend an event held by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Our main reason for going was that a good friend of ours, Jia, was one of the keynote speakers at this event. We had a great time and got to talk to a number of ICRC members about their work across the globe. As we bade our farewell (we were driving back to Sydney the same day - 600 kms round trip), I noticed a stand that contained some informational leaflets. I decided to check them out while waiting for my wife. There was one in particular that drew my attention. It was shaped like a bookmark and had the Australian Government emblem on it. I decided to pick it up...

"the only other comment I have received is from a well known radio personality....when I checked the location of the hit it pointed to a cemetary!" When I first started my blog I didn't really think about how many 'hits' it was going to receive. In fact, I didn't think anyone outside of myself would be interested in it. However, within a couple of days, I was starting to get hits from outside of Australia. To say I was surprised would have been a huge understatement. Well, just a shade over a month later my blog has passed the 500 mark! So, to celebrate this achievement I thought it would be a groovy idea to look at some of the stats thus far. To date my blog has been viewed in 16 countries (only another 200+ to go!). Technically it is 15 as I have included the Isle of Man (after all, they do have their own Parliament!). The list of countries include the obvious ones - Australia (home country), UK, USA, Canada and then the less obvious like Chile (2 hits - g...