http://www.grumpysblog.com/ Grumpys Blog en Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:15:00 GMT Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:15:00 GMT info@grumpysblog.com info@grumpysblog.com http://www.grumpysblog.com/images/head4.jpg http://www.grumpysblog.com/ http://www.grumpysblog.com/anonymous-blogonymous/ There is just too great a dichotomy between the outside and the inside some days. I don't just mean between outside world and the space in my office and home... http://www.grumpysblog.com/anonymous-blogonymous/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/anonymous-blogonymous/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:15:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/grumpy-asks-is-grumpy-really-grumpy/ Now, I am not too sure. Am I really Grumpy? Is that the question? Or am I really grumpy? Perhaps that is the question. And why am I so uncertain... http://www.grumpysblog.com/grumpy-asks-is-grumpy-really-grumpy/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/grumpy-asks-is-grumpy-really-grumpy/ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:43:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/grumpy-at-16/ Sixteen years old I was, when this picture was taken; sitting on the front doorstep of an old deserted house in the Dandenong Ranges. The Yardbirds had just released "Shapes... http://www.grumpysblog.com/grumpy-at-16/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/grumpy-at-16/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:40:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/floggen-dem-bloggeren/ You would think that if someone were going to write a blog on a scientific, political or philosophical subject they would make some effort to know at least enough about... http://www.grumpysblog.com/floggen-dem-bloggeren/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/floggen-dem-bloggeren/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:23:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/water-plan/ Thought I might show you one of the ways I now get water in summer. It all started when I got the cows, because the lower paddock had no water... http://www.grumpysblog.com/water-plan/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/water-plan/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:32:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/apropos-of-bugger-all/ Today was/is/remains one of those days. "Idly drifting along in rural splendour," is what I would probably answer if asked what I was up to. I wasn't even grumpy today... http://www.grumpysblog.com/apropos-of-bugger-all/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/apropos-of-bugger-all/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:17:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/hate-thy-neighbour/ There is a remote possibility that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person - but if he was then he was certainly nothing more than a perfectly normal Jewish man... http://www.grumpysblog.com/hate-thy-neighbour/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/hate-thy-neighbour/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:38:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/are-minky-bombs-the-answer/ As much as we despise those who use their own people as suicide bombers, I believe we could learn a thing or two from such despicable tactics. I propose a... http://www.grumpysblog.com/are-minky-bombs-the-answer/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/are-minky-bombs-the-answer/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/words-like-knives/ Ok, I'm supposed to be Grumpy. That's what you want, isn't it? That like Maximus, I should stride into the arena, sword in hand and proceed to take apart all... http://www.grumpysblog.com/words-like-knives/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/words-like-knives/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:14:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/floggen-der-bloggen/ Knuckle draggers and illiterates aside, how we write and what we write about reflects our psychic predisposition. Even those "pro-active" bloggers who play the hype game and churn out nothing... http://www.grumpysblog.com/floggen-der-bloggen/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/floggen-der-bloggen/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:35:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/richmond-bitter-was-best-says-god/ Unless you are a denizen of Richmond, (that's Richmond, Victoria) or a reader of those trash "alternative" nonsense magazines like New Dawn, then you may not know that during the... http://www.grumpysblog.com/richmond-bitter-was-best-says-god/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/richmond-bitter-was-best-says-god/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:31:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/council-imprisons-ratepayers/ Have you ever felt you were being screwed over by your locally elected representatives? Yes, I bet you have. Many times, even. I wonder though, how many of you have... http://www.grumpysblog.com/council-imprisons-ratepayers/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/council-imprisons-ratepayers/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:05:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/blog-zero/ Yes, I am breaking the most obvious law of blogging by once again writing later at night, but after spending some time listening around the amateur bands, checking the mail... http://www.grumpysblog.com/blog-zero/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/blog-zero/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:38:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/australia-day-the-morning-after/ "Gday mear smac, smick ear?" "Seer btee snot goan eht esez." "Smatta, dunny wonna go?" "Na supnis room." "Snot crooki si?" "Nah sjus prolly th pissi adit yestis barby." "Snot... http://www.grumpysblog.com/australia-day-the-morning-after/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/australia-day-the-morning-after/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:45:00 GMT http://www.grumpysblog.com/the-shorter-hamlet/ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, leant on the battlements and stared out into the misty evening, where the ghost of this dilemma had previously arisen to trouble his soul. At first... http://www.grumpysblog.com/the-shorter-hamlet/#comments http://www.grumpysblog.com/the-shorter-hamlet/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:37:00 GMT