Asleep on a Train

Well, nowhere really. I have started a blog several times, on the train, at work, at home (both of them) but nothing publishable of late. This one should be different. February flew past, followed quickly by March, and now it is one day away from my brother David's birthday ie Mid April, and I am not happy with not submitting stuff to this site. February & March saw me spending a lot of time in Sydney and at the office, interspersed with weekends down in Geelong helping Dee tidy the house for a seemlesly endless series of "Open Homes" Each time was like a "Backyard Blitz" / "home improvement" show, with Dee, the girls and I throwing baskets of household items into clothes baskets and stuffing them into the shed, and the boot of the car, with 5 minutes to go before the Real Estate tossers arrived. Then we would drive around Geelong for 45 minutes, come home to a tidy, sparkling house, only to instantly begin messing it up again by making a cup o...

For many many years, I have had a little statement rolling around in my head. I can't recall where I heard it, but I know it was not an original idea of my own. It goes something like this... A man's weekly wage can buy a bicycle or a good suit of clothes A man's monthly wage can buy a reasonable car A man's yearly wage can buy a luxury car A man's Half yearly wage will allow him to take a family of four on an overseas holiday Three years of a Man's wage could buy a small house/home ...and all this was from 100 years ago. Since then, I have sporadically and randomly searched for this type of reference on the internet but I've come up mostly empty, however I recently read another statement along the same lines, in that an ounce of gold could buy a pound of bread (or about 600 loaves) This has prove to be a lot richer vein to follow, if you can pardon my pun. This thought can be traced as far back as 2,500 years, so maybe after all the wondefull chan...