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A Drunken Taxonomy

Australia in all its cultural majesty has co-opted yet another foreign tradition: hallowe’en. An ancient pagan European tradition celebrating the movement of dark forces through the night. The Americans took it first: a party for children. And now Australia has added our spin: alcohol and lots of it.

No need to thank us; we’re pretty proud [...]

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2009 11 01 giles Comments (0)

Bear With Me…

Now that I’m using some proper tools for my blog editing I’m going back through my old posts making sure the formatting and HTML are correct. In particular, I’ve turned off the Blogger setting to do magic with line breaks, and instead I’m manually inserting <br/>’s where I want them to be.

This is better for my general OCD nature [...]

2007 11 19 giles Comments (0)