Last night I made the pilgrimage to Dave and Jim’s place for the weekly Wednesday night poker meet. It’s a $10 buy in, winner takes all, except second, who gets $20. Usually there’s between 8 and 10 starters. The three times that I’ve played I’ve managed to do ok; learning the rules the first time, [...]
Losing posts is annoying. I just wrote a nice little post about coffee and muffins (the English kind) and then lost it when my laptop crashed. Instead I’m going to write about aid-packages. You know, a little parcel full of surprises? We’ ]ve been getting quite a few packages recently. We send them pretty frequently [...]
I got up this morning and checked on the status of Jac’s fly rod (looks like it should be here soon). I also checked my email. I had a few messages, but two in particular caught my eye.
The first from the Dominators sub-contractors…
Hello Tom,
Your singlets are ready!!
Total is $422.54. includes postage.
Is it OK [...]
I’ve been sitting at home - what can there be to report? How about…
Today the garbage man came and emptied the bins and threw them all over the nature strip. Later on one of our downstairs neighbours, the green monkey, gathered the bins from where they lay strewn like children waiting to be picked up [...]