Month: December 2010

The latest retail breakthrough?

I know you can get nearly anything in vending machines these days: from Coke and chocolate bars to cigarettes and used undies (yes, I read about it online so it must be true).

But kids? A toddler somehow wandered into a toy machine at a Pennsylvania shopping mall and got stuck.

Firefighters were called to get her out of the machine. Guess that would be a better prize that one of those plastic chicken things.

Origin of a Christmas tradition

Santa was very cross. It was Christmas Eve and nothing was going right. Mrs. Claus had burned all the cookies. The elves were complaining about not getting paid for the overtime they had worked making toys and were threatening to…

China continues to suck

It’s not that I’m picking on China. Really, I’m not. Can I help it if China’s powers that be provide a constant stream of evidence of suckiness in all areas of human rights, personal and political freedoms and general respect…

Is Twitter becoming too invasive?

A Twitter-obsessed Brit is so hooked on the site that she continued tweeting while in labour, sending out 104 updates to all who were interested. Now I don’t know about anyone else out there, but when I was in labour…

The garden’s looking startling

It never ceases to amaze me that things actually grow in my garden. I certainly don’t have a green thumb. In fact, I even managed to kill a fake pot plant (left it in the sun too long, the glue…

Back from the wilderness

Mataura River

We headed out to our wee Mataura River hideaway after work last night … was nice to be sitting out on the deck at midnight, drinking rum and fishing. Ah, good times. We didn’t catch anything but Grant did do…