Ruminations From My Veranda #27: Time To Catch Up With Myself

Time To Catch Up With Myself - they say, time flies when you're having fun!!

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This is the twenty seventh posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah". Wow, it's been something like six weeks since I actually sat on the verandah, with a bottle of wine and with "Big Heart Mac", my mac laptop, and, just had time to simply reflect. I mean that is why I started this ad hoc column over a year...

Happy Happy, Joy Joy - Oh, am I feeling good!

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This is the twenty sixth posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Veranda". Autumn is most definitely the best season of the year in Melbourne, and, in Belgrave it is glorious. June (my long suffering partner of 37 years) and I are sitting on the verandah. The dogs (two German Shorthaired Pointers - Bodi & Lenni) are intwinned around our feet on...

Surprise, Surprise - and wow! thank goodness for that!

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This is the twenty fifth posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah". First things first! Second day of Autumn and I'm out on my verandah in the beautiful hills of Belgrave and it's all quiet except for the birds and the running water of the waterfall that I built that flows water into the pond in the garden. I don't know abo...

"Ruminate - to think deeply about something" (Oxford Dictionary)

OF SUNNY HOLIDAYS ON THE VERANDA - About bloody time as well . . .

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This is the twenty fourth posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah". I can't believe it! I'm actually still on holidays and its warm, its sunny and I am practically living on the veranda! However, the first thing you might have noticed ...

"Ruminate - to think deeply about something" (Oxford Dictionary)

A HAPPY NEW YEAR does it equate to a Happy New Toilet!

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This is the twenty third posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah".

So here we are in 2014 and I'm glad to have you all back for another year of sharing my verandah, my wine and, my Ruminations. I hope for you, 2014 has started out positively and...

"Ruminate - to think deeply about something" (Oxford Dictionary)

OF CHRISTMAS & OTHER THOUGHTS - Christmas, is it a time of cheer? If so, for everyone?

Hi, I'm Rob Greaves.


This is the twenty second posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah". Well, at long last the weather has broken, and we don't need to fix it thank you very much, I like the blue sky and sun just the way it is! Well, there ...

"Ruminate - to think deeply about something" (Oxford Dictionary)

UTILITY COMPANIES - Some deserve bouquets others brick-bats - with the emphasis on BAT!

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This is the twenty first posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah".

Ok, ok! It seems like all I seem to do is moan about the bloody weather - and there sure has been plenty to moan about, but I have a moan, a groan...

"Ruminate - to think deeply about something" (Oxford Dictionary)

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS - They Do Occur!
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This is the twentieth posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah".

Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch (with apologies to Monty Python). Here it is, the 12th of November and I'm sitting on my verandah with Vandella, the cafe heater on full bore. I could have said, still on!...

"Ruminate - to think deeply about something" (Oxford Dictionary)

REALLY - Am I Turning Into My Father?

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This is the nineteenth posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah".
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"Ruminate - to think deeply about something" (Oxford Dictionary)

THE ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRACY- One one hand we should be shouting in glee, on the other, what are we actually being gleeful about?

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This is the fifteenth posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah". On one hand I'm so very, very pleased the elections are over. I get sick to the back teeth of politicians smiling cheesy smiles, ...