97% says it all

Mixed Berry – 97% Fat Free.
SPRING pumpkin with coriander (99.6% fat free).
Chicken, corn and chervil (97% fat free).
97% Fat Free Yoghurt.
Sliced 97% Fat Free Honey Leg Ham.
Norman Swan: 97% fat free.
Muffin Mix: 97% Fat Free, Chocolate on Chocolate.
These biscuits are at least 97% Fat Free: Rice Cruskits, Salada, Bran and Malt Cruskits, Rye Cruskits, SnackRight .
Naked Echinacea - 97% Fat Free
Thai Noodles – 97 per cent fat free.
97% Fat FREE Yoghurt Apple-cinnamon.
A great value beef lasagna, 97% fat free.
Australian Wholefoods P/L. 97% fat free.
Dairy Farmers 97 % Fat Free Vanilla Custard & Berry Fruits.

Are you allowed to claim a food is 93% fat free?

All of these salads are 97% fat free.
20 rice crackers(97% fat free).
LEAN CUISINE meals are 97% fat free.
NEW 97% FAT FREE, 100% natural skinless breast fillet.
All of the HEINZ VERY SPECIAL soups are at least 97% fat free.
Bush Foods Breakfast cereal is 97% fat free.
Go Natural has relaunched its range of 97% fat-free bars.




I'm eating these chips because they're 97% fat free.

I do like to be beside the seaside

We are very patriotic!! We fly our flag at the beach. I couldn't believe it when I saw this photo. Truth is I couldn't see the screen on my digital camera when I took the shots. It was too bright!! Great day, great beach, great coastline.

The long and winding road

You can drive up around the bluff and right down the coast. The views are superb so people are starting to build more and more along our coastline and there is talk of building multimillion dollar high rise buildings here where I am standing. This is a place where people picnic or take a rest after the beach or shopping. The corner cafe has been closed down and I used to love that. So maybe the talk is right.

Sun, sea and shopping!

I went down the street today because we had sunshine and blue skies. It is not as hick town as it looks. I like this beach shopping area. The tree is a Norfolk Pine and they are used a lot in our beach front areas. Very green, very strong, very distinctive and easy to decorate at Christmas!!! Adelaide has a Christmas pageant in town but we have one here on this street too and everyone comes out to see the local one.

Blog snob

Do you think there is such a thing as blog snobbery? You know like location, location or the right post code or the right lay out or the done thing in bloggery? Is there blog etiquette? Bloggiquette? Is blogging a level playing field or can you outblog someone and feel superior? On another track entirely ..we have an advertisement about a potter who turns out to have thrush. Poor woman can't throw a pot because she has thrush. Do I worry about the woman because she is on telelvision having thrush or do I worry about the advertisers because they are riddled with non sequiters???

So where is everyone ??

There is also a theatre complex for civic events, community cinema and theatrical performances. We have a cinema further down the road. Community cinema is cheaper and shows two films.

Wet again

On a nice day people can take a break from shopping. They are going to rebuild the shopping centre. I hope they don't take the notion away that you can go outside and relax!!

People not profit

Apart from the nice part out the back of the shopping centre there is a huge library shared by the TAFE(vocational learning centre).I like this idea of having shops, libraries , learning centres, theatres all together and a place for people to sit and get away from it all. It's great when you have kids to take them out for a run around.

Shop till you drop!

The shopping centre looks empty. Another rainy day so they are all inside. It was pouring!

Dada blogging

So if crime is down, why do we live in more fear than ever? Why is the public in general, so fearful from day to day? Parents walking their children to school in fear of some child molestor grabbing their child.


Monday already, back in the office, what a nice day to have just stayed at home and lounged in bed.


Then there's the matter of pluralizing the normally uncountable noun "brotherhood". At first I thought this was just another non-native mistake, but it turns out that it's intentional.


Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has
come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or
make you laugh.


Ton blog, c'est ton journal à toi, sur le web à tout le monde.


the good boys are going to hell


Inspired by the Olympics and the vast array of sports on offer, Mac has decided to set himself a challenge: by the beginning of the 2008 Beijing games, he will have tried all of the Olympic sports that his sex/weight qualify him for. I think that works out as something like 136 events at a rate of 1 every 10 days. Perhaps he could be a gold medallist at something he's never tried? (or so the argument went)


I saw him! I saw him! I saw him!! I really did. Ok, here's what happened.


Encore une semaine d'expo. Venez, elle est vraiment bien.


Here, finally, is where I come down on that issue: If you want to be taken seriously, put your name on your work.

Photo free zone

Well, here I am in the photo free zone because I forgot to take my camera down to McLaren Vale when I went for a jaunt this afternoon. I'll blame it on the weather again. I am obsessed with it, I know, but we seem to be having so much rain and cold. Whatever happened to sunny Australia?? Must be the Government. Everything else is. Doesn't matter who you vote for, the Government still gets in. I saw Blair on the news tonight. What a sad sack he is. When he first got in he was this really go ahead, dynamic leader who seemed to be getting Britain up and running and even managed to give the Scottish Independence thing a whirl, and closer links with France and a bit more savvy over the situation in Ireland. That's how it looked from here at the bottom of the world. Then, during the Iraq Invasion , like Bush and Howard he became such a fake. Worse than fake. Those three managed to rain bombs on children's heads and we, the inhabitants of planet earth, knew it was wrong. We were listening, looking, watching. We were stunned. Staggered. We didn't approve. So many of us didn't approve. We were linked like the turn of the Millennium. How great was that watching all the countries in the world celebrating their tribute to a new Millennium and how linked we felt? And those three guys have blotted it all out and replaced it with what?? I felt a whole heap safer at the turn of the Millennium inspite of the Y2K bug. God, how they love to put the wind up us. So, it was raining again this morning, to get back on track, and I had to go and see the tax man. I used to do my own tax but there were so many things to check and manage thanks to all the new regulations of the simpler tax package Howard brought in, in the end, I went to see a tax man because I was getting so stressed. Well, this guy is good. He put my head straight, gave me a plan and has really helped me...so I was rapt today with the tax man. But then it was raining again and I was so fed up. We had had a brilliant two days of warm , sunny weather. I hopped in the car and that was that. I found myself at McLaren Vale with no camera. Got a fantastic bead bracelet from Silver Phantasy, though, with a magnetic clasp. How dinky is that?

I feel better now!!!

Apart from losing my analogue clock link..stupid me for not keeping either the URL or an update of my blog code, I feel better now!! I like looking over the sand and sea and I'm hoping it'll inspire our weather to be more like Australia and less like NZ. I don't know why I need an analogue clock on the beach anyway. It was just good to have Adelaide time going , that's all. Nest building, as I said. I feel better because I went on a blog jog tonight and I could see some people were having as much trouble with the lay out of their blogs as I had been last night when I decided to go summer floral instead of cool green. I felt sorry for them because I was getting nice and frustrated the margins were out or the colours were horrible or I couldn't read the font or things were displaying in odd places. I realise some of the classy blog people will laugh at this. But it's always easy when you know how. You can be such a know it all expert when you know. This is why my discovery learning on the blog is vital. I am pretty confident and manage most things pretty well....put me in a visual landscape and I'm not exactly incompetent but I can confess I am well and truly out of my comfort zone. Has it made me more tolerant? Probably not. Has it made me more humble. Oh yes!!

Phew!

That's better..a bit of sunshine and sea. Time to get into the summer mode and I'll tinker with the size of fonts and stuff later. Thank you Blog Skin and thank you artist . I feel better now. That last one was just a muddle.

J learning curve

Well..my J learning curve brought me back to cool and green...and green is certainly what I am. So much for changing the blog ...now I've lost my clock! Can't think where I got it now. Oh well...all in the name of discovery learning. So...I'll try again some other time. Bugga!

Yes, again!

Hang on a wee tick...I got ahead of myself and posted my blog before I'd refined it. Typical me...get in there and change when I want to change and then go back over and fix up the bits which aren't working!!! Other people look ahead and fix things first!! I crave your indulgence yet again!!!

Go the Power!!!

How cool is that? They won!! I don't even care about football but I do care about Adelaide and the people in it and they needed this win. There has been such a buzz about this grand final. It has been great to see people get right into in. Heaps went to Melbourne for the grand final and the town has been pretty quiet this afternoon...everyone glued to their sets. Even I sneaked a peak at the score at half time and the Power were a point behind....but they sure weren't behind at the end. We so need this. The Eastern states have a lot of energy and power...we have needed things like this to get us going. We are hosting the world transplant games here this weekend. That has caused a lot of interest because people don't like to be donors but people like to see people do well with transplants. The games kind of bridge that awkward gap and there are more donors after. My own point of view is simple. It's the people left behind who have to deal with the reality of it and sometimes the lack of consideration. I have said people can have what they want to sustain life but it is the decision of who is there whether it goes ahead or not. But that's a bit away from what I was saying about the great grand final win. Woo-hoo!!! Go the Power!!!

Time for a change

I can feel another change coming on. I have no idea why I put an analog clock on my blog except I quite like to know what time it is in different places and I have looked around blogs on my blog jogs and people seem to nest build on their blogs. Decorate a blog like their home or room. Fundamental to self expression and ownership, I guess. Even though we've had the rain and cold back, there is a definite change in the air and we even had a brilliantly warm day and night. Free at last from closed doors and windows, mountains of clothes, wet and being restricted and restrained. It's made me think it's time to rethink my blog. I have got a better idea of the changes I want and I guess just plonking a clock here tells me I can just do it...and you can see what time it is where I live! That'll excite you no end I am sure. You can get lost on the Net sometimes. Have a Netfest looking at sights and sounds and streaming music. You and your head can get lost in the screen and it's not like being sucked into a vortex. With very little effort you can be engaged in another place...like I was just in the Antilles because I ended up there from a link and it was great to see the pictures and then you get absorbed reading someone's travel journal or political discussion. People are coming out of themselves on the Net and there's some very amusing or immensely well thought out pieces to read and then there are striking things to look at. So , with no pain, no effort, you can wander around the Net in a very enjoyable way. It's different from film or television. But you know that. I was reading a blog about being boring and the triteness of expression was the thing which made it funny. It wouldn't work in another medium. It wouldn't be funny, it really would be boring. Don't understand people who say you don't need to think to use a computer. I am thinking all the time on a computer. It just doesn't hurt my head!! I had originally started this blog to give me a bit of a challenge putting something visual together. Then it went green and started to be about where I live and I had also meant it to be about the things we talk about in Adelaide and that's why I called it the talk of the town. We say we are going to town when we mean we are going into the city of Adelaide. Or, Have you been to town? We don't talk about Adelaide. The talk today is about the Port Power match in Melbourne tomorrow afternoon and heaps of people are going over there...well, most of them will be there by now. The whole city is so excited. It has reanimated our interest in the football. We always used to talk about football and live for football and I hated it...but it gives us life and animation. Like today. Everyone was so full of it. Even singing and making jokes. It was a great feeling. I haven't seen Adelaide that happy since we won the back to back premiership with the Crows! The whole town lit up in a really good way. Fun. We need fun.

Mrs. Boring

I am not trying to be Mrs. Boring. I figure if I show you my world, you'll show me yours. It's about people , not profit. People are everything and I have been pleased to see the blogs of many who, like me, just live somewhere in the world and share their thoughts and photos. Governments think we elect them to give them power. We elect them to govern! It's something which has gone awry at the moment and I figure if we make the basic contact with each other and make some attempt to relate to each other, we, the people who elected these governments to govern us, might have a better way of understanding each other and the world. I was interested to read in the paper at the weekend that one of the fathers of the school children who were so thoughtlessy and cruelly used as targets in Russia said that he didn't take any notice of what was in the media. He tried to work it out for himself. I was amazed because there is someone in Russia who thinks and feels as I do. It is a cruel world which loads innocents against innocents. I think we will do better if we can see and know each other a bit. I guess I don't know what else to do other than try to influence the things over which I have control and that's a fair bit, but not enough. Besides, blogging is very self indulgent. You can be in your own world, saying your own things and no one can interrupt you or disagree with you or make you feel stupid. It's nice being king of the castle or queen of the may...the head honcho!

Bark

Here you can really see the bark peeling. Once it has gone the trunk and branches are very smooth and pale. They catch the light at night time.

The hills are alive...

In the background you can see the famous Adelaide hills . They run right behind us and we always know where we are because we have the hills on one side and the ocean on the other. The hills can look like rumpled silk at times. Sadly in summer they are a lovely shade of brown.

The big gum tree

This is a huge gum tree at the bottom of my garden. The bark peels and falls off and it's home to many birds, especially different sorts of parrots. It operates like a massive apartement block with all the birds and at times the noise is huge.

Sights and sounds of blog jogging

We have all used metasyntactic variables in programming. Ever wonder what the sequence was and how it came about?

Well, the list of English values goes something like this:

foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud


The MIT-Stanford usage has been

foo, bar, baz, quux, quuux, quuuux ...

but in some cases qux has been inserted before quux


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i mean princess diaries pla... pero maganda nmn yung story... may photography, tennis and california ( db dana?) hehe...

Do you sleep on your tummy the entire night? While you are balanced and level headed, you tend to be slightly narrow minded. You have fixed ideas and are unlikely to accept another person's opinion easily. You force people to comply with your needs, and you rarely adjust to others. In spite of this, you are popular and have many friends.

"Two years ago, the Trunk deconstructed the Minnesota Poll run by the Minnesota Star Tribune, and showed why it is consistently wrong. Amazingly enough, it is consistently wrong in the same direction--it always predicts the Democrats to do better than they actually do.

Fakat adam canavarı nasıl bulacağını bilmemektedir.

You may explode my city, you may make a travel warning, but I still love my city Jakarta, my cosmopolitan city with its own character.. not like other cosmopolitan city you'll imagine, I still consider it as a cosmopolitan city..

You can find either a sophisticated things and a traditional things, luxurious and poverty live together.. Jakarta is never sleep..
http://momm-on-the-net.blogspot.com/

used to browse the web when I was in 10th std. with my shell internet account. It was my first experience with UNIX, 'cuz my ISP (VSNL) ran a UNIX host which I connected to (using HyperTerminal) thru' dial-up. My account allowed 500 hours of access for Rs.5k per year. The TCP/IP equivalent cost thrice as much. I used Lynx, a text browser.

Food for thought

Le véritable terrorisme

"La pauvreté, la faim, la pollution, les métiers dangereux et un accès limité à des soins de santé de qualité tuent chaque année beaucoup plus d'Américains que le terrorisme"

Ralph Nader
11 Septembre 2004

True Terrorism

"Povery, hunger, pollution, dangerous jobs and limited access to health care kill each year many more Americans than terrorism"

It's a jungle out there

The leaves to the right are my fuchsia and you can see the thick trunk stretching across the picture. At the other side of the house the fuchsia has a trunk like a real tree and it goes up straight. The rain has made my plants just boom.

Garden..or the Australian back yard.

This is the view out onto my back garden and now I can see this I shall stop complaining about the weather. All the rain has made it so green and there are signs spring is now here.

Hallo Dolly

This is another one of my dolls. I can't help myself sometimes!

So, what do you know?

I just saw a blog which started druk, druk, druk...scandinavian or something. I sometimes go on a blog jog from the bar at the top just to see...blog jogging is quite fun until some twerp loads their blog and then the bar at the top vanishes so you can't jog onto the next blog. Click back, click forward. What a pain. Blogs are so diverse and so represent everyone. Some are quiet and hesitant. Some are depressed. Some are big and bold. Some are very political. Tonight I have seen commercial blogs and study blogs. That's new. I like to see what people have written. It is fantastic I can come on the Net and find there's a whole world out there full of all sorts of people. Like the other person who has been thinking like me that Iraq just seems to be being completed exploded away. Does anyone care? If so, what can we do about it? You've seen photos of where I live. I'd hate to think that would be exploded and the people and lizards would just be blown away. Then there are some incredibly artistic blogs. Some people have some great drawing skills. My brother and sister do. I don't. I can sew, though!! On the home blog front I have started to work on a wee calendar with some success and if the one I have up falls apart next month...I shall have this new one ready by then. Some people get some great effects on their blogs. I wonder what your favourite software is ...that you couldn't live without. In my book scribble it and reg cleaner are must haves and photobase. I know Adobe is top of the range classy , but I am a very photo and image challenged person.I need accessible! So, blog on, folks. It's been fun reading you all. If you are looking for a book read - try Dirt Music by Tim Winton. One of his best. I have never liked him till now.

Keep the scene clean

Don't you just love the bright blue rubbish bins!! The blue pole to the right is a shower post for people coming off the beach. I drive right down this coast line on the way home. Past the old refinery are some of our favourite surfing beaches. Local residents have been busy planting and watering all the little flowers along the top here.

Mobile mania

These phone towers are a scourge. Maybe we just need our mobiles too much. The two little white blobs on the hill to the left are part of the now defunct oil refinery which they finally closed after much discussion. I expect they will turn the land into legoland condominiums eventually. Money seems to rule the world at the moment.

Sea, sun and sand

I took this at lunch time today. I work near here and I am really pleased with the effect of the picture. It's one of our popular beaches.

Little people

From time to time I make cloth dolls. This is one of my small ones. Some are bright and colourful and others are more country like this. I love making new people and there's a lot of fun to be had with dolls. I tried teddies but I haven't got the patience with the fur and features.

Spring has sprung

Signs of spring. I came home and found my tree fern had decided to wake up inspite of more cold and wet. It poured! This is supposed to be spring. I hate it. I like those warm, even hot, balmy days in Australia.

Baa!!

This is my tourist sheep from my last visit to Christchurch. It baas. I love it. She makes me laugh when I see her. In truth , NZ makes some beautiful woollen products and even though Australia has its own brilliant wool, NZ wool seems softer. Makes sense. Australia is very imposing and in places, very harsh.. NZ is like a big family.

I have phildodendrons on the side of the house. They are huge, as are the monstera plants. Everything grows so big. Even my fuchsia on the other side has grown as high as the roof top and has a trunk like a tree. Great shade in the hot sun.(I wish, we keep having cold and rain!!)

Green thumb - green blog

I put a little piece of sword fern into a big self watering pot...watered it and then boom! Suddenly I had a plant everyone was talking about. It's a very effective screen. 

Now I'm cooking with gas

I've gone green! I figure with Lizzy and my other wild life green is a more suitable colour. I have fixed my wee calendar for now and shall continue the hunt for something tasteful and workable. I find I need to start somewhere and having done that I generally work it out in the end. Then I look back and can't believe how soft I was!! It's about non stop slog, pseudo professionalism and a chance of re engaging with core ideals and artisitc sensiblities. I enjoy being my own personal hero and don't mind a bit it I am trying to do something and can't quite figure it out. The sweet satisfaction of success is all the better for it...and then , in my world, little things like Lizzy turn up to surprise and delight me. Reviving sleeping genius is quite fun really and computers are good for that.

Blue tongued lizard

Lizzy is a blue tongued lizard and I can say I have had a variety of lizards in my garden. This one has been the friendliest. They usually hide in the dark spots or long grass. She hissed at the dog and her tongue was a lovely sky blue!! 

Tale of a tail

If you look at the pictures closely you will see she has lost part of her tail. Maybe a feral cat which hangs around or maybe the dog. My dog just woofed. My other dogs used to go psycho when there was a lizard.

Not a snake!

When I first caught sight of her I thought she was a snake...not that I ever see snakes. Once, years ago and it was dead.

This is Lizzy