Life is so busy with work, hobbies, grandchildren that sometimes it is very difficult to step back and find time to record daily happenings Last week is a prime example, Tuesday spent 6 hours travelling

It was not my best activity count because I spent a big chunk of the day watching the Australian football league grand final. After a very tight first half, the Brisbane Lions pulled away to win quite

No Yoga this morning as I had a live radio interview commitment on ABC radio regarding making the banner for the Brisbane Lions game on Saturday night and discussion about making, polling, raising the

Last night I assisted making the banners for this weekend games of the Brisbane Lions AFL Mens and Womens team which the players run through when entering the playing field as the team song plays. Typically

Weather can change so quickly on the coast as this morning was a glorious clear blue sky with no wind changed to this arvo bleak sky and strong south easterly wind creating white caps on the water. One

Change - How many people do you think it takes to make an impact on society and bring about change? What do you think matters more: the number of people or their commitment to the cause? How do you think

Failure - What do you think is easier, failing privately or publicly, and why? Have you ever stopped trying something out of fear of failure? Have you ever stopped trying something because people around

Back in 1974 North Melbourne were runner up in the Premiership losing to Richmond but there winger Keith Greg won his second best and fairest Brown Brownlow medal and there full forward Doug wade kicked

Do you think parenting is easier now that it was thirty years ago? What's your opinion and why, and use examples I don't thing so. Maybe some of the technology and information available today make some

Yesterday was the AFL Grand Final - which means nothing to most of you - AFL is Australian Football League, football in this instance being Australian rules football not soccer and for grand final think

How good is this? A small bloke is taking a big spectacular mark to help his team get into next week's grand final. Photo credit for these screen shots to the AFL and Brisbane Lions, which I got for instgram.

An angry bearded dragon lizard in the nature reserve. They can put on quite a show when you get too close for their liking. I reckon this one was just about to start breathing fire. Luckily, they have

Sorting and throwing stuff out. After what feels like a lifetime of getting work related things done. I have a bit of time to look at things that I have just shoved into cubboards and boxes. I was always

I used to play a bit of Australian rules football and coach some juniors at this ground. I stopped on the way past because there was some nice morning light and it is now your football final time in

Reminds me of the old Clint Eastwood Movie, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I used to really like the Dirty Harry character hard but a good person and fair. Sometimes I feel like my life has been similar.

Has got to be parkrun! A free weekly timed event, it just does not get any better! It has got to have saved me a small fortune over the ten years I have been doing it. Just about every other sport I have

I was having trouble deciding on a hero. I am not sure I actually look up to any one that much to be called a hero but there a few I have a lot of respect for. My choice ended up between two very different

Australian Football is back and my favourite team is in town so i went along to support the boys. I cheer for the Geelong Cats but live in a different city, so dont get to see them too often. We arrived

Welcome to The 23rd edition of the series - Scenes from a bike This Edition facts: Location: Something different today. Australia's local football - Australian Rules or AFL. And my local team - The North