Comments on: Goodbye Two Oh Oh Fo’, you skanky ho’

By: Flute

Flute — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen, retire? Raise chickens? Has some wierd hacker got into this site?

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Flutey, you don’t mean you’ve never had the chicken-raising urge (or equivalent) when faced with the ideological and electoral triumphs of the right in 2004.. the rise of superstition, “Creation science” et al… the fact that Labor’s plan to save the Tas forests will now be a no go… The fact that the Senate will no longer keep the bastards relatively honest as they used to… Iraq, Darfur…

However – I do keep thinking of reasons to be cheerful. I just wanted to say goodbye to that pox of a year and let 2004 be in no doubt as to what I thought of it.

It is a nice fantasy though… A quiet little farmhouse with chickens, Kelpie crosses and a horse or two. And a good PC with a state of the art internet connection, OF COURSE.

By: David Tiley

David Tiley — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If U leave can we come 2?

By: Flute

Flute — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We all know its fucked. A soon as say India or China match our consumption we’re buggered. All we can do is stick our fingers up and hope that its not too late. It is of course. Not even a bloke in a white cloud (or Tiley) can stop it.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Acourse, the diogenes fantasy is all very well when I picture the remote chicken shack in daylight, but it’d be as scary as all f### at night time.

Hmm, there’s an idea – a B & B for bloggers? Time out in the country, but without having to go without your ADSL? I think I’m on a winner here.

By: Brave and True

Brave and True — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen your account of 04 as a “shit of a year” was very moving. I admire your bravery in detailing how and why it was a rotten year. (wouldn’t have the courage to reveal myself and my circumstances so publicly) So hope your writing is cathartic for you.
Yours is certainly a blog I check into regularly as your comments on current happenings are often so apt and then you tackle something entirely different and it is well worth reading and pondering. All the best for 05 to be a much better year.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Sylvia. I think it was the complete opposite of your kindly assessment – a selfindulgent, personal rant really, and I don’t feel “bravery” is deserved after the latest crisis. Standing on a beach holding your baby’s empty jumpsuit after the tsunami recedes, and then having to go on living, now that’s bravery. My own life events don’t compare and it’s only my limbic system which imagines that they do.

Barista found another blog, Cancergiggles, which also puts my rants into perspective.

Hmmm, now that sounds ungracious! It’s really just an attempt at perspective. Thanks for your lovely comments, happy 05 to all of you!

By: Sedgwick

Sedgwick — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m about to launch my neo-eugenics campaign. You might be interested Ms. Ferrous Buehlers-Balcony.

Bloggers will only breed from bloggers thereby creating a new improved, anti-bacterial, added enzymes, caring-sharing master race.

Barista has already proposed to me. I’m having my people check out his dowry offer (a quiet little farmhouse with chickens, Kelpie crosses, a horse or two and an Internode connection with a free set of steak knives) with a fine tooth cockscomb, but his intentions seem to be honorable enough.

Have a merde hot 2005, Helen.

As my grey haired old granny (the nana formerly known as Uncle Neville before the sex change), used to say, “things can only get better … or worse … or worse still, stay the same … or kind of stay a bit the same with little bits getting worse but better than the worst bits of the better bits that weren’t as good as the known better bits that we know that we don’t know. There are known better bits, that is to say there are things we now know weren’t worse. But there are also unknown worse bits — things we do not know we don’t know about the better bits.”

I know that sort of pithy positive advice doesn’t grow on trees, but if you check out underneath the wings of your average Rhode Island Red you might be in for a big surprise, for today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

(Must go, Nurse Ratchett has sprung me at the institution’s laptop.)

By: Sedgwick

Sedgwick — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Update 1. Re my neo-eugenics campaign. The first cabs off the rank. Oh frabjus bran’ new day!

via GRUDNUK

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Big congratulations to Shauny – cynicism hereby suspended for a wee while in honour of yon wee lassie. Anyone who hasn’t checked out her blog (What’s New Pussycat) should do so toute suite.

I’m off to Gippsland again (wistfully checking out renovators’ delights from the car window). Be good y’all.