daviddablogger

daviddablogger

Monday and a short week at work with Thursday being a holiday , Australia Day, and I'm taking Friday off to make a 4 day weekend. Anything else would be un-Australian.
Spent Saturday cleaning our pond since the palm tree had been dropping fruits into the water and they were rotting in the water and finally poisoned the fish.
Despite losing the fish, we have another crop of hundreds of tadpoles. They were obviously able to tolerate the poisonous water, tho' I'm not sure I would survive the stench of clearing out the slimy mud at the bottom of the pond.
When the tree has finished fruiting we'll re fill the pond and introduce the taddies, safe and sound without any fish to eat them.
Currently reading a book about a 17 th century blogger, Samual Peyes.
He lived through very turbulent times satrting with the English civil war, the ascent of Cromwell and the beheading of Charles the !st, the restoration of Charles the 2nd, the black plague, and the great fire of London, plus various wars against the French and the Dutch.
All this time he kept highly detailed diaries of his everyday life and events as they affected him, his carreer, his marriage, family and friends.
He rose from a clerk to a prosperous and influential civil servant, became a member of parliament and was put in the Tower of London on the suspicion of being a catholic.
Apaently the original diaries are written in the language of the 16 hundreds, along with numerous latin , Italian, and French words, so the book is an easy and interesting way to access the blogger of his time.
The Unequalled Self by Clare Tomalin . 8 out fo 10 for those mildly interested in history.

daviddablogger

daviddablogger

Another dull day at work but the radio is good-Triple J broadcasting from australia. Plenty of new music and no ads.Try and find it webcasting.
Or even podcasting from their web site.
Australia has passed recent laws which restrict many of our freedoms, all in the so called war on terror catchall, and along with some dreadful changes to industrial relations laws we slip more and more to a right wing ideology-driven government.I dispair of the electorate allowing it and our weak opposition meakly opposing , but not much.
Wonder whether blogs can become seditious?I'm sure they can and many resources are used to read dull musing to loony ravings.
Actually loony ravings would be alot more interesting than many I have read.
The blog phenonemon seems very popular and truly world wide. I heard the US government was concerned that their Iraqui, Afghanistan based troops were blogging their patrols,incidents and thoughts and observations about the kind of life they see every day as opposed to the embedded press trotting out propaganda.
Democracy is dependant on free speech, unless of course it's in the national interest to restrict it?
Any way enough of this rambling-maybe tomorrow might be world trade musings.

daviddablogger

daviddablogger
OOps sent wrong blog to wrong blog place. bloggy hell