Mon was remembering a story from her childhood:
A scorpion wanted to cross a river, but he couldn’t swim. He looks around and finds a frog. The scorpion asks the frog to carry him across the river on its back.
“But if you are on my back, how do I know you won’t try to [...]

I’m at home today, with a ruptured eardrum caused by an ear infection last week. I’m on a new course of antibiotics, and the doctor took a swab from my ear to ‘check if there’s anything nasty in there’. How nasty? Are we talking something from a Clive Barker book???
He says because if pseudomona is [...]

Banana prices are expected to double after Cyclone Larry wiped out 80 per cent of Australia’s crop. The Australian Banana Growers Council said the bulk of the industry’s production would be in ruins for about a year, and shoppers could be paying hefty prices as the fruit becomes scarce.
In other news, John Howard met with [...]

Site refurb is well underway, got a working script to squeeze the current stuff into the new system. Next step is get the archive posts migrating properly, which should be easy cos I know how it works now. Once I’ve done that, I have to decide on one of the visual themes I [...]

This is what Vatican II had to say about Islam, in 1965 :
The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable [...]