Crib’s blog

Summertime and the living is........

2007-12-20T00:33:39Z

Summertime and I’m feeling good – I’ve got three weeks off work. But summer brings crowds. I’ve never liked crowds, I gave up serious surfing because of crowds....and maybe because of drugs and alcohol as well. The worst days of all are Sundays...

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You can't always get what you need.

2007-12-09T08:55:03Z

The election race has been run and won - it was the dullest (and longest) campaign ever and the victory speech had neither heart nor movement. It may have been what Australia deserved - an extremely conservative society with extremely conservativ...

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Another brilliant idea.....in the right measure

2007-11-29T19:16:13Z

It was a warm night but the sea breeze was quite strong. I was sipping on my gin and soda, looking out to sea, waiting for the boys to come over for cards. Still a few people walking on the beach, some with their dogs and a few on the footpath, ma...

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I'm no Nelson Mandela

2007-11-24T02:49:40Z

I have a dream. I guess it's a few years in the future and it's John Howard being led to face war crimes in his pyjamas and dressing gown.

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A man's gotta do

2007-11-10T09:05:40Z

Don’t know what I was listening to, it was the radio and we were on our way to drink and play snooker. I think it was a program about movies and they might have been talking about the Jesse James and Robert Ford movie. The woman was speaking abou...

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Forever

2007-10-05T01:35:50Z

Some people say you should live each day as if it were your last. But I say it's preferable to live each day as if you have forever.

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Most of the time I've got nothing to say

2007-04-29T02:47:16Z

I'm not your ideal blogger. I'm not interested in lots of stuff and don't have much to talk about. Don't get me wrong, there are things I like. I like most animals and some people, I love music, nature, the sea, rain and the night. But generally,...

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ANZAC day and a search for meaning

2007-04-25T00:06:40Z

Human life is a search for meaning, we seek it in a myriad of different directions and pursuits From drugs to the spiritual supermarket, from raising a family to growing vegetables From waving the flag an...

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PEACE

2007-04-03T21:57:42Z

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Counterinsurgency and honour

2007-01-11T08:35:32Z

The original rationale for the invasion of Iraq was to find and destroy Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction”. No weapons. The next rationale for war was to remove “the totalitarian menace threatening all of Western civilisation”. The...

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