Lest we forget

It has been a few day since my last post, I thought that I would do a trip down memory lane. Mind you there is an old saying a that nostalgia isn’t what it use to be.
Today’s post is a tribute to the man who had the greatest influence on my life, my Grandfather.
A working [...]

Big Night Out

It has been a while since I have had a big night out. Last Tuesday amidst of all of the fiscal worries facing our world I thought that it would be a good thing to put something back into our ailing economy. Sixty seven dollars later I proudly possessed two tickets to hear the band [...]

Saxophone

Hey did you know that the LeFonquester learnt to play the saxophone?
To be honest I wasn’t real good.
However I had a great teacher and the issue with my inability to play was no reflection on him.
The band that I wanted to start was with a trumpeter Steve Smith. We wanted to call the band the [...]

I’ll give you controversial

New faith throws out the Ten Commandments
Barney Zwartz
September 16, 2008
 
Francis Macnab.
 
“THE TEN Commandments, one of the most negative documents ever written.” With that provocative claim posted high over two city streets, controversial cleric Francis Macnab yesterday launched “a new faith for the 21st century”, a faith beyond orthodox Christianity.
Dr Macnab says Abraham is probably [...]

Lists (no not Listz)

I love lists, you know lists like the top 20 songs of all times or the greatest footballers. They are always arbitrary sometimes provocative. at times subjective at other time useless.
Here is a list of stations on my train line:

Cranbourne Station

Merinda Park Station

Dandenong Station

Yarraman Station

Noble Park Station

Sandown Park Station

Springvale Station

Westall Station

Clayton Station

Huntingdale Station

Oakleigh Station

Hughesdale Station

Murrumbeena [...]

I don’t like Mondays

Monday, the week has begun. I always think of the Boomtown Rats song “I don’t like Mondays.” So here we are Monday. Today I have decided that it will be a NO MORE BULLSHIT week. In fact my BS antenna has been really sharp recently. There has been a lot of it around. The reality [...]

My favourite Rhyme

I thought I would add my favorite rhyme to the web site.
 
As I was going up the stair
I saw a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish, he’d stay away.

“Antigonish” (1899). 
 
I find this rhyme exciting yet somehow chilling at the same time.   
Inspired by reports of a haunted house [...]

Blog Title

A long long time ago I studied New Testament Greek. A subject that I was incredibly bad at as my blog title suggest. I remember in the blackest days of my study I spoke to my then lecturer who encouraged me by telling me to hang in. Which I did. For those of you who [...]

Learning to forgive

Learning to forgive may be good for your health …or so it was reported in the January 2008 issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource saying “Holding a grudge appears to affect the cardiovascular and nervous systems”. “Forgiveness is associated with better psychological well-being, greater marital satisfaction, less criminality and better adjustment to bereavement”.
The Church should [...]