If you dont live in Australia these dates may not apply

28 Feb 06 – Pancake Day

06 Mar 06 – World Day of Prayer

08 Mar 06 – International Women’s Day

10 Mar 06 – NRL season begins

12 Mar 06 – Grandparents Day

15 Mar 06 – Commonwealth Games begin

17 Mar 06 – St Patricks Day

26 Mar 06 – Commonwealth Games end

26 Mar 06 – AFL Season begins

01 Apr 06 – April Fool’s Day, GPS Head of the River

02 Apr 06 – Daylight saving ends

07 Apr 06 – Royal Easter Show begins

14 Apr 06 – Good Friday

16 Apr 06 – Easter Sunday

17 Apr 06 – Easter Monday

20 Apr 06 – Royal Easter Show ends

25 Apr 06 – Anzac Day

01 May 06 – May Day

08 May 06 – World Red Cross Day

14 May 06 – Mother’s Day

24 May 06 – State of Origin game 1

27 May 06 – Rugby Union Super 14 final

04 Jun 06 – Mums birthday

05 Jun 06 – World Enviroment Day

06 Jun 06 – Sister’s birthday

12 Jun 06 – Queen’s Birthday holiday

14 Jun 06 – State of Origin game 2

15 Jun 06 – Patito’s birthday

21 Jun 06 – Shortest day of the year

A blonde calls her boyfriend and says, “Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can’t figure out how to get started.”

Her boyfriend asks, “What is it supposed to be when it’s finished?”

The blonde says, “According to the picture on the box, it’s a rooster.”

Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle. He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, “First of all, no matter what we do, we’re not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster.”

He takes her hand and says, “Second, I want you to relax. Let’s have nice cup of tea, and then …” he said with a deep sigh, “Let’s put all these Corn Flakes back in the box.”

A distinguished looking young lady is on a flight returning from Switzerland. She finds herself seated next to a priest and asks” Excuse me father, may I ask a favour of you?” “Well of course Miss, what can I do for you?” he replies. “Here’s the dilemma, I purchased for myself, a superbly sophisticated electronic hair remover. I paid a lot of money for it. I really went well over the limits set forth by Customs, and I fear they will confiscate it from me. Could you perhaps secret it through Customs for me under your robes?” “I certainly could my dear, only I must warn you I really am not ever able to lie…” “You have such an honest face father, surely they will never ask any questions of you,” and with that she hands him the hair remover. After landing they proceed through Customs and it becomes the father’s turn in line. “Father, do you have anything to declare?” asks the Custom’s officer. “From the top of my head to my waist I have nothing to declare my son.” Finding this answer a little strange the custom’s officer proceeds to ask, “And from the waist to the floor, what do you have to declare?” The father replies, “I have a marvellous little instrument destined to be used on a woman, but which has never yet been used…” Roaring with laughter the Custom’s officer says, “Go right through

I don’t know about you but I’m getting increasingly concerned about our planet. Over here in the UK there are many documentaries dedicated to eating better, living better, environmental issues and generally becoming more environmentally aware.

I must say it’s worked and I’ve started thinking of what impact myself and people have on the earth from putting food scraps in the bin that I could be composting to all the water I’m using to wash up, shower and clean.

One example is the way we all contribute is buying those household cleaners, we’re flooded daily with cleaning ad’s that you simply just don’t need and all those chemicals end up down the drain into the ocean and can end up making you allergic or sick if your sensitive to them. The simply truth is that you can make all your household cleaning products quite easily from simple non-toxic items.

www.eartheasy.com/livenontoxicsolutions.htm

www.almanac.com/home/cleaners.html

Another example is our constant consumption and wastage it’s quite frightning really what we are doing, here a few facts that might get you thinking about the level of resources required to keep up our lifestyle.

Milk – A dairy cow produces 120 pounds of waste every day – equal to that of two dozen people, but with no toilets, sewers, or treatment plants. That’s one cow folks…there are two and a half million cows in Australia.

www.milksucks.com

Cotton – To grow the fibre for one cotton T-shirt needs 256.6 gallons of water and 987 gallons of water are required for one pair of jeans.

When I do buy my own property I intend to get off the grid as much as possible and reduce my reliance on the system by creating my own wind energy, solar and a rainwater tank for the garden this is a great site about what you can do

www.est.org.uk/myhome/generating/types/wind/

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

Newspaper wrapper

Junk mail distribution

Pizza distribution

Mailroom clerk

Four movies I can watch over and over:

BioDome

Snatch

The Castle

Kill Bill 1 or 2

Four places I have lived:

Killara

Crows Nest

Neutral Bay

London

Four TV shows I love to watch:

Simpsons

Teachers

The Glass House

Little Britain – “computer says No”

Four places I have been on vacation:

4 x Bali

Fiji

Ireland

Germany

Four websites I visit daily:

etrade australia

google

haveamint

anthonypannell.com

Four of my favorite foods:

subway – all of it

caramel ice cream

mum’s lamb roast

sushi

Four places I would rather be right now:

London

Bora Bora – tahiti

The Pink Palace – Corfu

My girls place (smooth)

Four bloggers I am tagging:

Mr Maslen

Mr Goldfinch

Mr Goldsmith

Mr Bevan

Copy and post your ‘four things’ in the comments.