Street Library

Ian Kirk who started the Little Library on Macleay Island alerted me to an online news bulletin of our little street libraries.  I think mine is the 6th one to be opened that they mention. Check out the news article in the Redlands City Bulletin

https://www.redlandcitybulletin.com.au/story/6614709/libraries-spring-up-on-macleay/

Funny word distortions

Dominic a friend from Fiji sent this to me, I thought it was brilliant:

Washington Post's "Mensa Invitational" once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing only one letter, and supply a new definition. Some of these will put you on the floor! Here are this year's winners:

1. Cashtration: The art of buying a home and becoming penniless.

2. Ignoranus: A person who is both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money in the first place.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

9. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

10.  Glibido: All talk and no action.

Can you make some as well? Will be fun and I cant wait to see what you come up with

Reading - John Elliott - Stephenie Meyers

I read not only books but stories online, which is the almost norm these days. I came across this story of John Elliott, Australian CEO and millionaire who made a life changing decision to walk around Australian with a few camels.

I started following John Elliotts trek across Australia with 5 Camels, amazed at what he has been through on this trek.

One step at a time

Fear - Its all about to start

Videos

An except from his blog MY STORY

A life by design

• Ever since I was a young boy, where other dreamed of being a pilot, or a fireman, I wanted to have my own business.  I bred pigeons as a 12 year old to sell to a guy down the road and I kept writing down ideas and concepts that could one day be the thing that I was meant to do. I always had reasons or simply procrastinated even starting my own serious business. I had been in the insurance industry now for about 2 years, and at 26 I decided that I needed to start my own Insurance Broking company.   It now was not just a case that I wanted success, it was something which I knew was a key part to my happiness. I set rules for myself:
  1. Don’t get out of bed until you have slept as much as you feel you need to
  2. Don’t get out of the office until you have worked as much as you feel you need to
• I needed to start respecting and valuing myself as much as I did my work. This gave me a renewed passion and over the first few years the business exploded.  The average age of an insurance brokerage owner was 61 and had 40 years experience and a large cash pool behind them to start.  My other competitors were the insurance companies, with thousands of employees and multi million dollar budgets.
• And then there was me, 26 with 2 years doing low level broking, and a couple of grand in a one man office and a few ideas. Now that I was happy and doing what I wanted, and this was my biggest tool that always set me ahead of many of those around me.  I could work longer, network more, I got to again spend time with a massive range of people which as I said earlier, I loved.   I started to do what I loved and the results came through.
• Over the next 9 years the company and the other businesses I became involved in won several awards including Top Ten Australia Insurance Brokerage for over 6 years and BRW Fast 100 awards 2 years running putting us in the fastest growing businesses in Australia. I had the pleasure of at one stage working every single role in my company that exists today.

Life by my own Design V2 ??

• Everything was going well again humming along, I had a beautiful girlfriend and things were looking as if I could finally settle down get a house, start a family, the job was quite easy and the company was running itself. It scared the shit out of me.  At one stage I spent three days in a room, unsure where to go with this. It felt like that moment I had 10 years earlier, and we all know how that nearly ended.
• From outside in you would see someone who had worked hard and had it all.  But I realised more and more that I enjoyed the pursuit of these things more than the things themselves.  For some reason I had again gravitated or been pushed into a work of conformity, fitting in and measuring my own success as was determined by others not by myself. I knew this period of my life was done.  I was ready to go and redefine my own success happiness and the journey to it once again. To do this I wanted this time to share the journey to share the story as it unfolded. During this year Bitcoin came back on my radar, a few years after I had put a little in there in 2014 and 2015.  I started to learn more and more about it as I spent time traveling, thinking about what the next phase of my life would be. I started the process with a big clearing of my life.
• Over 12 months I was able to donate my Audi R8 to One Heart Foundation, move on from a relationship I felt trapped in, move out of a house that felt like an anchor keeping my here, resign as CEO of the company I started, walk away from the high end wage I had built up, and pretty much all of the creature comforts I had built up around me. This time coincided with my “playing” with crypto currency, which I have to say has been exciting and scary at the same time with my shares of wins and loses. But it was a catalyst for me to have something to do whilst on the road, to learn and to be the nucleus to get out again to see the world, and try a more nomadic life style. This is why this is called bitcoin made me do it.
• I wanted to finally start sharing my journey and see if in sharing my journey I could help others “find their bitcoin”. So join me as I share the journey as it continues, finding new and continued happiness in my life and still striving for success defined on my own terms.  A life with a lot less stuff, a whole lot of new and old friends and some experiences and places that I hope you will enjoy as much as I do.

And one of my favourite authors Stephenie Meyers of Twilight fame is releasing her 12 year old book Midnight Sun from Edward Cullen's perspective

Library - the inside one

This afternoon hubby and I got some energy and tackled the Library (hubby's haven). I cleaned the windows and blinds inside, hubby cleaned the windows outside. Hubby moved all the junk and I wiped down all the shelves and books which were covered in dust. Hubby sleeps in here on a mattress in summer as it has the only other air-condition besides the main bedroom.

We had gone out and bought a 32" Smart tv which is what you can see on the coffee table. I want to put another table in there to do the jigsaw puzzles we own and not do it on the dining table which is currently covered in groceries from the pantry which I am trying to clean out.

These are my two favourite bookshelves, my neighbour was renovating last year and I offered to take it off her hands at a bargain price, they are quite heavy and study and holds a lot of books. My self is on the left, have to get all the cookbooks from the garage and fill it up.

I must say it feels really good to do stuff like this and clean.  Dust bunnies were having a great time settling in.

Weekly reading

Australia's most expensive homes for sale

https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2019/04/26/australias-most-luxurious-houses/

Beautiful 1960's home of a Designer Decorator

7 very brave ladies sharing a house together

Alison McDonald makes some awesome designs with recycled items we throw out

Canning red meat

Man builds a Hobbit home in the UK for 5000poounds

The Sandy Bus   Instagram  Podcast of a tiny home in a bus

I love watch the show "Escape to the Chateau" and I heard about this one on a podcast Somewhere Else
Restoration on a grand scale Chateau in France bought by an Australian Family, Karina Waters

Memories and how they mould us

Reusable paper towels for sustainable living, what a great idea

Weekly reading - DIY campervan, Little Street Libraries

I love this detailed DIY of a conversion of a van to a camper van
https://www.realestateview.com.au/advice/buying/4795/

We go on walks every Thursday night with the local Bay Islands Hash House Harriers, it was pretty scary to see the bushfire on Macleay Island Christmas 2016 and what damage it did, not too far from our  house.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/macleay-island-bushfire-forces-residents-from-their-homes/news-story/4598262eab6435f8b38d67851fe33ee4

Local Macleay Island writer Robbie Kirk and her Husband Ian Kirk  are helping me build a Street/Little Library Robbie won an award in 2012 for her story On the Edge

Little Free Library

Street Library

Street Libraries around Brisbane

What a great idea this is that has been done in the US. I live in a hot climate so it would not work here. We'd have to give out frozen water bottles.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/01/23/hats-and-scarves-around-cities-_n_6525632.html

I saw the original teapot tree when we went to look for a house to buy, the house was very artistic but not suited to us, I fell in love with the teapot tree though. I want one of my own LOL. Madeleine Ekeblad was the originator of the teapot tree on Macleay Island. HERE are some of her works of art
http://www.thefriendlybayislander.com/single-post/2018/11/07/ARTIST-MADDI-EKEBLAD-BACK-FOR-A-FINAL-ISLAND-GOODBYE

Weekly Reading

Hannah Brencher writes notes and leaves it for strangers. I've ordered her book to read all about it.

Our ex Prime Minister Tony Abbott came across a Street Library for the first time.

Have you seen this womans incredible pantry? I love how its very shallow so you can see everything, the cost of it must have been enormous. She's obviously very organised, she's a wedding planner lol

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11951303 

surprisingly it didnt cost too much

http://www.fromgreatbeginnings.com/how-much-did-my-pantry-cost/

I love stores and stories like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/opinion/vermont-town-seeks-a-heart-and-soul-also-milk-and-eggs.html  

Weekly reading

In my youth I used to work for Air New Zealand in Suva, Fiji and Sydney, Australia. It was during this time that we had one of the worst aviation disasters certainly for Air NZ and New Zealand. I discovered these articles about the disaster and saw a documentary, now 39 years ago since it happened in 1979. I was 19 at the time when I worked for Air New Zealand.  It was good to see what had happened as we weren't told much, kind of a closure.

http://www.erebus.co.nz/background/thestory.aspx

http://www.erebus.co.nz/


This is why we write letters, so we and our families can have memories
Lin-Manuel Miranda's childhood letters From Summer Camp Will Make You LOL

Came across this project called POSTCARD HAPPINESS what a great idea to fill someones box with postcards to help them get through whatever is happening in their life.
Here is the FACEBOOK page

Incredible, passenger train drives through Sydney Holsworthy/Wattlegrove/Menai area fire 14 Apr 2018

Street Libraries - The Friendly Bay Islander
http://www.thefriendlybayislander.com/single-post/2018/05/03/STREET-LIBRARIES

Robbie and Ian Kirk have the first Street Library on our island. 

Suzanne has the second Street Library.

I have commissioned the Renegade Men's shed to make me a street library. I am so excited. This project was one part of my Landmark SELP project and I didnt know it would ever be possible. Stay in touch! We have two on Macleay Island so far, there are more in the making and one is mine.

Interesting reading - Landmark and Grief

My husband and I attended a forum lately. In just three days it has transformed my outlook in life to what I saw and what it really is. It was mind blowing and empowering to see the possibilities I could achieve from simple things like making the bed and culling my craftroom that I haven't been able to do for a while now. Now I can see the bigger picture in doing anything I want to fulfill lifelong dreams and also achieve daily tasks

Landmark

Interesting facts about Air Force One

Failure is ok as long as it comes with learning

Grief and how one man sees it and copes with it

Lemons and how much good they are for us

The goodness of tea leaves

Interesting article on how many times you can reheat food

Interesting Reading- Guestblogging-Living on Mars-Guava health benefits

Remember my Guestblogging post for Lettermo? Well it is now up on the Lettermo site

I was listening to a podcast the other day and Josh Richards was on Conversations ABC Radio. The project is called Mars One and is privately funded for ethical reasons.

We have grown up with Guavas in Fiji. I also have a guava tree hanging over the fence intruding in my little concrete garden. The bats make a huge mess when they eat the guava and either vomit or have diary on our concrete. But this article tells me I should make tea with the leaves because of its healthy benefits. This years fruit is very slow and small so i dont think I will get anything out of the fruit.

Interesting Reading - Airport phone hacking-Arsenic in rice?

What will hackers target next? Charging your phones at airports is high risk, its called "Juice Jacking"

Arsenic in rice?

Interesting Reading - Postal wonderers

So seeing as its Lettermo month I thought this postal story was awesome.
Letter with a map gets delivered such is the dedication of some postal workers to get the job done.

I have a postal story similar to share but will  have to get the envelope first. this came from a penpal. he had just moved from an isolated town to the city. His story is amazing how he lived off the land.
Australia Post you rock #austpost

Great ideas to save money includes the following:
Reseal A Freezer Bag
Save Your Drain
Make Your Own Stylus
Make A Fast Funnel
Sharpen Your Scissors

Clean Your Pan
It may seem strange, but crumpled up foil can actually help you do your dishes! If you have a pan with stuck on residue, give it a good rub with a ball of foil and watch the grime rinse away.

Rub Off The Rust

You don't need any dangerous chemicals to get the rust off your barbeque. All you need is a sheet of aluminum foil. Crumple it up and start rubbing, the rust should come right off. 

Loose Battery?

Help it fit snugly into your electronic using a small ball of foil. You can also wrap the entire battery in foil, but this works equally well.

Roast A Turkey

Slow cookers are among the most versatile appliances in the kitchen. Not only can you made delicious soups and sauces, but you can even roast a bird! The trick to getting a perfect roast is aluminum foil. Start with several crumpled up balls of foil in the bottom of your crock pot, then add your chicken or turkey. Head over to I Believe I Can Fry for step-by-step instructions.

Ditch The Dryer Sheets

Instead of using dryer sheets, try the foil trick instead. Wrap a few tennis balls in aluminum foil, then throw them in with your wet clothes. Not only will they help keep the static out, but your clothes should dry quickly too! The best part is, you can use the same foil wrapped balls over and over again! Head over to the blog I'm A Lazy Mom for all the details.

Interesting Reading - Dogs dogs dogs

Love dog stories

Worlds largest dog Freddie the Great Dane

hahaha dog language

Dog wanted a kitten and throws a hissy fit

Blending street art with nature, very clever

Interesting Reading - Calligraphy

Victoria Falls and some amazing footage, if you're squeamish or hate heights dont click the link or watch the 2nd video after the girls

Amazing calligraphy work by John Stevens oh to be so talented.

I was chatting to a penpal and reminiscing about my trip to Fiji last year and we discussed Tropical Non Alcoholic fruit cocktails and how they are only nice where there is beach, sun and sand hahaha.
I mentioned how I couldnt find any recipe online to try and make it and boom I find this WEBSITE.
Of course there is all the other recipes as well for drink mixing. I think the drinks taste better in island paradise because the coconut is fresh and the fruit is fresher too and not from cans. I can see a few I want to make right NOW!

For all you campers out there or people like us that just burn fires to cook or keep warm, here is a self feeding fire that you can make yourself.

How stamps are designed in the USA for USPS.

How your letters are handled by USPS

Love this eagle cam, nothing better than to hear and watch nature living

Interesting Reading - Life hacks

I love Life Hacks - Hints and Tips things that make your life easier

Mosquito coils are they good or bad

Best exercise to remove those batwing arms

Never new Lemons were this powerful

25 places you are not allowed to visit (makes you want to visit it even more

20 stunning natural phenomenons you've just got to see to believe

Fascinated by dominoes? There is someone crazy enough to spend hours building these incredible stacks. It's mesmerisiing to say the least. Like me if you need more here is the youtube channel for
Hevesh5... Dominoes must love her!!

18 Richest families in United States- its interesting to see how these families came about their fortunes, most through sheer hardwork.

Interesting Reading-Evacuation Tip-Making Yoghurt

I love cute puppy videos like THIS

If you are going to have to evacuate your home or going away on holidays, this handy tip will help you with your freezer

I love making my own yoghurt and this lady has some cool ideas Down To Earth

I love thees hilarious tweets from Barack Obama and Joe Biden, made up of course but wouldnt they be funny. MORE   and MORE

Interesting Reading - Pay it Forward

I always find the glass half full, so that will explain this paragraph of Pay It Forward which is something I enjoyed reading about and taking part in. I first heard about it HERE and Suspended Coffees and their facebook page. I've always thought of why it isnt in Australia and how I can be a part of this movement.

Today i found this floating on my Facebook wall, 542 Eatery Hamilton ON Canada.

A local one to me that we can participate in as well Brisbane Period Project

I have also found that when I am feeling down I gravitate towards helping someone else or phoning someone I know to see how they are doing, it usually makes me feel so much happy and no longer down in the dumps. I saw this online as well, we actually have an organisation R U Okay and on Sep 8th it is called R U OKAY Day where you call someone up to see if they okay. I called 2 people up that day but unfortunately they weren't home. One did respond via email 3 weeks later and I finally was able to phone the other one this week. Better late than never.

I  love this obituary from Emily Phillips

10 places to visit before they're lost to climate change

I've always wondered what will happen in the future generations when letter writing goes out of style and post offices are no longer needed. World Post Day October 9th has a competition to write to ones 45 year old self for the younger generation. Well I've passed that age so I'll write about my 45 year old self and share it one day if I can remember what I did a decade ago lol.

2015 1st Prize winning letter Sara Jadid 13 years Lebanon

2nd Prize Mariam Campos 11 years Spain

3rd Prize Leonardo Silva Brito 15 yearsBrazil

My dream is to live on the road and visit the whole of Australia, here is an article about Aussie couples living on the road. Rebelonarainbow  Johnny & Jess dustyboots, Vanlife,

Interesting take on travel while you are young

50 most beautiful places in the world, such exquisite places. Without the internet I would never have known the wonders of the world.

Cappadocia, Turkey 

Cappadocia, an area in Turkey where entire cities have been carved into rock, is pretty incredible on its own. But whenever hot-air balloons pepper the sky, its beauty level simply skyrockets.

Salar de Uyuni: Daniel Campos, Bolivia

The reflective surface of the world's largest salt mine is like something from the imagination of Salvador Dali—although we're happy it actually exists in real life.

Mù Cang Chải: Vietnam

Mù Cang Chải manages to be one of the most breathtaking spots in Vietnam, with terraced rice fields and mountainous landscapes.

Benagil Sea Cave: Algarve, Portugal

The southern coast of Portugal is lined with exquisite beaches and caves, including the famous Benagil Sea Cave (skylight included).

Snæfellsjökull: Iceland

Iceland's Snæfellsjökull glacier, complete with ice caves and craters, has appeared in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth and the film Batman Begins.

Palawan Island: The Philippines

With its limestone cliffs and pristine lagoons, it's easy to see why Palawan was votedthe best island in the world by our readers.

Palawan Island: The Philippines

With its limestone cliffs and pristine lagoons, it's easy to see why Palawan was votedthe best island in the world by our readers.

Ashikaga Flower Park: Ashikaga, Japan

Ashikaga's wisteria trees bloom brilliantly for a few weeks every spring, turning the park into a vision of pastel pinks and purples.

Brecon Beacons National Park: Wales

Brecon Beacons offers access to rolling hills, Medieval castles, and romantic waterfalls. Plus it's arguably the best place to stargaze in the UK.

Namib Desert: Namibia

Red sand dunes and skeletal trees make Namibia the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth. The Namib Desert was also the filming location for Mad Max: Fury Road.

Milford Sound: New Zealand

New Zealand is no stranger to breathtaking landscapes. Case in point: Milford Sound, a mountainous fjord where you can live out all of your Lord of the Rings fantasies.

Kolukkumalai Tea Estate: Munnar, India

Situated more than 8,000 feet above sea level, Kolukkumalai is the highest tea estate in the world—and easily the most beautiful.

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Although the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque has only been around for less than a decade, its regal architecture has already made it the crown jewel of Abu Dhabi—and one of the largest mosques in the world.

Bryce Canyon: Bryce, Utah

Bryce Canyon's layered red and orange rock pillars, known as hoodoos, make it a can't-miss destination for campers and shutterbugs alike.

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

You might know them better as the Cliffs of Insanity from The Princess Bride, but this seaside wonder is actually located just south of Galway. Inconceivable!

You get the idea!! Go and check out the glorious photos yourself!!

Interesting Reading and recipes

Such an inspiring story of Gabe Adams, what's your excuse?

Spite House what a delightful house with wonderful stories of its beginning

8 vegetable meat pie kids will love

For the stamp enthusiasts, USA have announced their 2017 Stamp Issues

How to get rid of Bunions naturally and why they are caused

Imagine having this history in your home, goes to show dont discount those weird dreams you have.

How to become famous without trying....eat a pork bun

15 lazy yummy meals

Freezer dinner jackets

Internal clock makes  you age faster and die younger

Adorable twins captured by mums imagination Leia and Lauren Lok through mum's photography lens


Old fashioned way of delivering letters

Books I am reading

The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world’s volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service—more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and British. And the USPS has a storied history. Founded by Benjamin Franklin, it was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, fostered a common culture, and helped American business to prosper. A first class stamp remains one of the greatest bargains of all time, and yet, the USPS is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing.

In Neither Snow Nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long history of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and air mail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers.

Neither Snow Nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system—and the country—to a halt in the 1970s.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has only to look at history’s greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Máo zhuxí yulu, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)―which doesn’t include editions in 37 foreign languages and in braille―to appreciate the range and influence of a single publication, in paper. Or take the fact that one of history’s most revered artists, Leonardo da Vinci, left behind only 15 paintings but 4,000 works on paper. And though the colonies were at the time calling for a boycott of all British goods, the one exception they made speaks to the essentiality of the material; they penned the Declaration of Independence on British paper.

Now, amid discussion of “going paperless”―and as speculation about the effects of a digitally dependent society grows rampant―we’ve come to a world-historic juncture. Thousands of years ago, Socrates and Plato warned that written language would be the end of “true knowledge,” replacing the need to exercise memory and think through complex questions. Similar arguments were made about the switch from handwritten to printed books, and today about the role of computer technology. By tracing paper’s evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Middle East, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times.

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A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created Americaexamines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. 

The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. 

Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. 

Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century.

Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, 

Interesting reading - War and its innocent victims-9/11

Kim Phuc the Napalm girl of Vietnam and how Facebook took down the iconic photo that was posted in Norway

Tea bags and their many uses, and the downside to drinking some brands of tea

Flavour infused sea salt, always wanted to make my own as we use a lot of flavoured anything lol

On the 15th anniversary of that tragic day of 9/11, do you remember where you were?
it was 11pm that fateful night for me, I was living in Adelaide, South Australia, we had just come home from a meeting and I had gone to sleep. Husband got a phone call from a friend in Sydney-Celine who told him we had to turn on the tv. Hubby woke me up a few hours later after watching the news of the Twin Towers, i did not sleep for 2 days as I watched the television coverage of this life changing moment happening in the US.

About the Falling Man the most powerful image of 9/11

More stories about 9/11

Escape from the 81st floor of the World Trade Centre

Trump brags about his building being the tallest in Lower Manhattan

9/11 remembered

Handwritten notes from Air Force One on 9/11 

Interesting Reading

Downsizing is what is on most peoples minds these days if you've watched Tiny Houses on tv, well this couple turned a Cubby House into their home while they save for their dream home.

Here is an interesting concept to get people off the computer or technology. Mysterious stack of books.

8 things you need to keep you safe when you are stranded

I love my bananas but I dont think I will be making Banana Wine any day soon.

5 of the dirtiest spots in your kitchen. Even if you meticulously clean your kitchen, and believe it to be squeaky-clean, chances are its still home to nasties that are bad for your health.