A little help from our friends Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace gave us the computer, thanks guys! Generations since have learnt and appreciated the greatest gift of all "knowledge". I have just turned 65 years of age and with the help of my...

Humans are not the enemy All levels of government spend money on tree planting and then have to spend more money and Human Resources on nurturing these trees. When people buy a block in a new estate, they build their new home and then start on the...

I CAN HEAR YOU A few years ago l booked an open for inspection in a large house with open plan living and spacious rooms. The vendor said that she would open the house up, open all the doors and turn all the lights on and for me, and to leave...

After a long exhaustive fourth inspection with the same clients on the same property over two weeks we had become long lost friends and the deal was imminent, smiles all round and l am virtually helping mum, dad, aunties, grandma, grandpa, dog, cat...

REALESTATE OFFICE 1984 we opened opened office at Ballan. The office exterior signs were hand written by true artists/sign writers The office equipment, state of the art, had a correcting type writer and soon to come a fax machine. Communication to...

Obsticle course On a recent inspection on a farm with clients we had to walk through the 64 acres divided into about 15 paddocks and the clients wanted soil samples from each paddock. Shovel in hand and clients following me - their leader. It was a...

Definitions :Sushi roll, New born wrapped in blanket - Alien, Doctors and nurses in white surgical outfit Waking in the morning in the communal baby hall of the hospital to warm feeling in my sushi rapper outfit. This felt a bit strange, l  hadn't...

BIRTH Comfortable floating around in warm amniotic fluid, not a care in the world, on auto feed no effort on my part, waiting for the big day, BIRTH. Contemplating my upcoming adventure. All of a sudden- wave disturbance, going with the flow no...

  In 1971 the state government announced the natural gas pipeline from Melbourne to Ballarat and from the gate valve at Ballan to Bendigo. 200 workers from all over the planet decended on the small Hamlet of Ballan. Their main form of...