We've just found out two of the missing athletes are in the bike-riding events. The team and police have refused to identify them, but Sierra Leone's only cyclists are Alhassan Bangura and Mohamed Sesay.They were given new bikes to ride here, and they must be bloody … [Read more...] about Two of the missing athletes pedalled away
Missing athletes had no beanies
I'm still worried about these missing athletes from the Commonwealth Games. The police here today actually agreed to keep an eye out for Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri and Bangladesh 400-metre runner Mohammad Tawhidul Islam. These two speak little English and neither … [Read more...] about Missing athletes had no beanies
Alien Abduction ignored
You've heard about the missing atheletes of course. Eleven of them now. All missing from their cozy little cabins in the new Commonwealth Games Athletics Village in Melbourne. Does no one care? Have these eleven fine young specimens of humankind been murdered while they … [Read more...] about Alien Abduction ignored
Ill mannered Medico
My word, life has been hectic in my little neck of the woods. I got so excited when the pension went up $2.27 a fortnight that a wild jig around the kitchen caused a broken hip!What disturbed me though, was the form I had to fill out, and the doctor's reaction to my … [Read more...] about Ill mannered Medico
Is it Autumn already?
The amaryllis is coming up in my garden. Do my garden bulbs know more than I do about the seasons? Golly, it was 33 celsius today, that's over 91 degrees in the old measurement. And my garden thinks the Summer is over?In any case, I should be putting in my bulbs for … [Read more...] about Is it Autumn already?
A buxom poppy
I thought there were only two kinds of Poppies. The narcotic one they make films in strange countries about, and the poppy of wartime remembrance, the red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas, a common weed across Europe.But there are more poppies than this. Apart from Nero's … [Read more...] about A buxom poppy