Archive for the Category: Stuff

Melting Pot

Last night I sat around a table of twelve people. To my left was my love Llama and then a variety of crusty old Russians who have come to Australia. Here is me, the Llama family, been a part of Australia for well on 200 years, sitting around a table with a bunch of new […]

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Michael Jackson Dead

So, he’s snuffed it at 50. This Llama waits to see how this will be treated.  The 450 + articles on Google news seem quite clear that it’s a dramatic departure from life, the word ‘rush’ ‘unexpected’ and ‘suffering’ seem to come up a lot. Will this be another media frenzy, will there be another […]

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Pay as you go

Ryanair considers charging passengers to use toilet. So Ryanair want to charge its customers to use the dunny on their planes.  Should make for interesting times.  I can just see people taking a dump in the aisle to save a pound. What next?  Having to pay to watch the inflight movie… having to pay for […]

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Bushfire relief

Australian Red Cross. They’re reporting over $30 million dollars being donated to the bushfire appeal. What an incredible feat. The bushfires seems to have stirred something in we Australians. Its a very impressive amount, and if you have contributed to that, congratulations, well done. Those affected by the tragedy of the fires will thank you.

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Jilly Boel

Last night the Llama’s jumped on a train, went into the city to see Billy Joel.  ’twas good. As I sat there singing along to the entertainer, I was looking around the audience and noticed the glow of mobile phones, no doubt all recording the fun action happening down on the stage. No doubt these […]

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Voting Day

I’ve just cast my ballot for the local Council elections.  I live in the City of Glen Eira and every three years we have to (under pain of being fined if we don’t) trot along to a polling booth and mark some squares to have our say in how things run on a local level. […]

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Bruce Does Pod -3

Download in OGG format (right click and save) In my 3rd podcast I talk about the current stock market crisis, look at twitter and George entertains us with his view on a couple of websites. Links: Twitter Ugly People Men who look like old lesbians Jake Stone Bruce Llama Podcasts by Bruce Llama is licensed […]

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A time to go

I wrote eariler about the death of the father of a friend.  Today was the funeral.  It was mostly an un-religous event, and a fairly good summary of this man’s life.  I didn’t know the guy. I couldn’t help but notice how people still think the dead watch over us.  It’s a quaint notion, but […]

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Sometimes in life

Sometimes in life the oddest of things happen. My friend’s father has been sick for a long time, and today he died. This afternoon I was thinking about sending a message of support, but work got in the way, and even though I had my phone out, I didn’t send the message. As it happens […]

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Waiting

Here the Llama family sits. Waiting for llama son to see the dentist. Waiting rooms are so much fun. People sitting, heads down buried in old magazines. One mother has bought a Harry Potter book to read, she looks lovely with her bright red top, matching glasses and lippy and a bright red glossy handbag […]

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