Month: December 2011

Anonymity: you’re doing it wrong

in print news anonymous

At least they know how to spell anonymity, I suppose. Now perhaps they can look it up in a dictionary, because I’m pretty sure they don’t know what it actually means! Maybe Ms Reynolds wore a mask  while being interviewed.

All done for another year

The annual Allison family Christmas gathering/BBQ/circus went off without a hitch and just a wee spot of sunburn. And one mosquito bite. It was hot enough on Christmas Day but even hotter on Boxing Day at our little home away…

A Christmas poem

Summer Santa

Twas the night before Christmas – Old Santa was pissed He cursed out the elves and threw down his list Miserable little brats, ungrateful little jerks I have a good mind to scrap the whole works I’ve busted my arse…

Breaking news: Christmas policy

Christmas, Xmas Santa Claus

Effective immediately, the following economising measures are being implemented in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” subsidiary: The partridge will be retained, but the pear tree, which never produced the cash crop forecasted, will be replaced by a plastic hanging plant,…

And I shall call him …

The three wise men arrived to visit the child lying in the manger. One of the wise men was exceptionally tall and bumped his head on the low doorway as he entered the stable. ‘Jesus Christ!’ he exclaimed. Joseph said,…

Poor wee ronery dictator

Kim Jong-Il

I realise there are some people out there who lack something in the brain cell department, but when someone is in the public eye you’d think they’d make an effort to know what they’re talking about. But, when it comes…

Club Med Mataura

cards

Spent the weekend at our little shack on the river, our first weekend there for the summer. We had some friends come out to stay on Saturday night and have made some important discoveries: I’m not the only person who…

My word!

Dictionary

For all you lexophiles (lovers of words) 1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tyred. 2. A will is a dead giveaway. 3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. 4. A backward poet writes…