May 2007
- Jaf(f)as anyone? (31 May 07)
This is Jaffa which gives its name to Jaffa oranges and to Jaffas -- orange chocolate filled balls with hard orange colored candy coating -- well known to Australians and ...
- So that's why I can't find my spectacles (30 May 07)
Sexual orientation affects how we navigate and recall lost objects. An international team of researchers led by Professor EA Maylor of the University of Warwick have found that sexual orientation ...
- Smoke free (30 May 07)
31 May 2007 would have been the 85th birthday of my mother June. It is also WHO's World No Tobacco Day. She smoked only a little and quit towards the ...
- Amnesty and abortion (30 May 07)
There's been a lot in the press about Amnesty International's revision of its policy on abortion. In The Age 28 May 07 for example Barney Zwartz says that "Amnesty in ...
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté at our place (27 May 07)
I've just found gold-framed reproductions of these pictures for our home. They are "Lychnide à grandes fleurs" and "Iris xiphium" from Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs Panckoucke Paris 1827 from ...
- My colleagues (24 May 07)
I've been enjoying in my new job about a month now. These are my colleagues in a group photo taken at an out-of-office planning day last week. They're good people. ...
- Clear desk or clear thought? (23 May 07)
The latest Time magazine has a cover story celebrating Al Gore's great work on climate change and speculating on whether he may yet run for President of the US.I like ...
- More rain? (22 May 07)
We have had several good falls of rain through much of SE Australia recently and people are beginning to hope that maybe just possibly maybe the long long drought may ...
- Conservatively green (21 May 07)
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Time's lastest listing of the 100 "Most Influential people in the World" because of his environmental credentials. This interests me because Swarzenegger has shown that ...
- Railroading Korea (19 May 07)
James is in Korea for a family visit. Each time he is there something interesting seems to happen between North and South. When we were there together there was small ...
- Othello (19 May 07)
I enjoyed Bell Shakespeare Company's performance of Shakespeare's Othello at Canberra's Playhouse last week. Directed by Marion Potts Wayne Blair leads as Othello with Leeanna Walsman as Desdemona and Marcus ...
- Argle-bargle (17 May 07)
Here's another from a Boston Globe writer; this time Alex Beam ("Meanwhile: I still haven't found what I'm looking for" IHT 16 May 07)It is abhorrent of course to make ...
- Christlikeness is full humanity (17 May 07)
The International Herald Tribune (15 May 07) has a piece by James Carroll of The Boston Globe who uses Benedict XVI's visit to Brazil as an opportunity to consider 'Thought ...
- Public employees still discriminated against (15 May 07)
In the recent federal budget same-sex couples were again ignored. In 2004 the Government gave a clear undertaking to reform public sector superannuation laws to allow same-sex couples to be ...
- True communion? (14 May 07)
On 6 May 07 Andrew Brown argued in The Guardian that Archbishop Akinola's actions mean that schism in the Anglican Communion is now an reality but that the schismatic forcxes ...
- Carpe diem (14 May 07)
Phillip Adams's latest column in the Weekend Australian (12 May 07) is a superb comment on the famed interview between Melvin Bragg and Dennis Potter.Now. Get on with it When ...
- Do we want to be healed? A sermon (13 May 07)
Sixth Sunday of Easter -- 13 May 2007 -- John 5.1-9 Acts 16.91-5 "There was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem." Most likely it was ...
- Two anniversaries (05 May 07)
This weekend my parish St. Philip's at O'Connor in Canberra celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of its first building and 50 years in the ...
- Our faith will thrive on mystery (01 May 07)
Faith will not grow from words alone from proofs provided scripture known; our faith must feel its way about and live with question-marks and doubt. The pattern Jesus showed we ...
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