New Year's Resolutions

Well, we all consider them, some of us make them, and most of us break them by the end of the first month ... Perhaps we go too big ...and we should start small.

If you think being small can't make a difference; then you have never been in bed with a mosquito ...

So this is what Santa does, off season ...

Restaurant charges 'thongage'

As I said in the post below; leopard’s don’t change their spots! Mr Spellman is back in the news and this time it’s about thongs. Thongs in this part of the world refer to footwear, not an article of lingerie. Thongs, flipflops, zori’s, whatever your local terminology is.

http://veronicas-secrets.blogspot.com/2010/01/every-gambler-knows-that-secret-to.html

A DARWIN restaurant is charging patrons $10 for wearing thongs while they dine.

The "thongage" charge is announced in a sign on the door of John Spellman's Tramontana restaurant on McMinn St.

Last night Mr Spellman said the "campaign" was setting the tone for his "boutique" restaurant. "It's a formal restaurant - tablecloths, napkins. I wear shoes and socks," he said.
"There's actually a button on the register. I just put it on the bill - you don't have to argue about it. Two lamb chops, one thongage.














Read the whole story below …

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/03/31/135971_ntnews.html


Darwin, being the town it is, has not let that news article rest without retaliation.
Read below and at the bottom of the article are comments from around the world … the story has grown and actually yielded fruit.


http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/04/09/138181_ntnews.html

After all, Easter is imminent, and you know what wet bunny fur is like …

Update from the Bureau of Meteorology today …

“Ex-Tropical Cyclone Paul is currently over the southwestern Gulf of Carpentaria
and is expected to move south towards the coast during Thursday. The system is
no longer expected to redevelop into a tropical cyclone.

Heavy rainfall and strong, squally winds are expected to continue in the
Roper-McArthur District during Thursday.

A Severe Weather Warning is current for damaging wind gusts and heavy rainfall
in the Roper-McArthur District.

No further advices will be issued for this system.”

That’s my boy! Zipped in here, zapped out there, spun around and zipped in again, gave everyone a dust up and then headed off again to have a quiet time to himself (probably eating Easter eggs!).

So bloggers; it is now safe to answer the door. I will be home for Easter, watching out for the Easter Bunny; hoping there are some eggs left for me.

Hoppy Easter to all!

By Jove ... I think I've got it!

There has been so much time, money and frustration trying to work it out; but I think this is the best explanation.

Boxing Day or crazy mad shopping day

by Chip Sansom

Looking at the books for the year

Well, the scrutiny of Estimates by Parliament is over and we have survived … well, sort of … because we now have to do the work we weren’t doing while we were preparing for estimates.

But, whoever said Parliament was boring, hasn’t read Hansard.

And I quote:

"Mr MILLS: Treasurer, has the department been the subject of any form of criminal damage?

Ms PRINCE: I am not sure what you mean by criminal damage?

Mr MILLS: By criminal damage, I mean graffiti, windows broken.

Ms PRINCE: Not that I am aware of.

Mr MILLS: Theft?

Ms PRINCE: I know the Tattslotto fund was taken from Treasury pool about a month ago, which was about $30. I am not aware of any other."

But perhaps the most of it can be roughly summed up with an international cartoon. Perhaps in the global village many things change, but many others stay the same.