Author: Bearsy

A Queensland Bear with attitude

November’s Creative Writing Competition

Thanks Pseu – I’m somewhat overwhelmed by your choice – “like a stunned mullet”, as we say in Strine – but thanks again for your kind words, and for the congratulations from other Charioteers.

I could think of nothing to write about until I remembered visiting the Berlin suburb of Wedding a couple of years before the wall came down.   As soon as that popped into my head, the plot materialised fully-formed, and I could set to work.

I loved all the stories, and would have had great difficulty choosing between Bilby and Ferret if I had been in the hot seat.

The challenge for November –

We begin in a boardroom where a fierce debate is in progress.   The words ‘dahlia’ and ‘crescent’ must appear, and the story must be less than 2,000 words – and more than 1,000 ❗

Closing date is UK midnight on the 27th of November 2011.   Have fun! 😀

Just for fun

Because Pseu has received such a gratifying response to her Creative Writing competition – eight entries – I’ve added a Poll.   Menu Bar -> Polls -> Creative Writing Poll

Of course, Pseu’s adjudication remains the genuine article – she is the sole judge and her decision is hers alone – but the poll is there in case anyone feels like giving a tick to their favourite author.

If you’re not happy with this, Pseu, I’ll remove it immediately.

This man has trashed Australia


This greedy, self-centred Irish gobshite (a word I hate, but nothing else is appropriate) has singlehandedly trashed the image of Australia around the world, playing havoc with our economy and ensuring that the airline that we were once proud to describe as an Australian icon will inexorably lose money and morph into another low service, poor safety Asian also-ran.

He ignored his customers, stranding some 80,000 of them around the globe.

Last year he took home $11 million as his salary plus bonus, but his declared objective is to get round Australia’s strong employment laws so that he can pay his employees Asian sweatshop wages.

He is a scrote.

Thank goodness that even Juliar had sufficient balls to (indirectly) order Qantas back into the air.

I’m with the French, for once

Advancing against the Haka - £2,500 fine from the IRB

Who are these boofheads running the IRB?

As all you Rugby types will already know, Les Bleus have been fined for linking arms and walking towards the Kiwis while they were doing their nuts – sorry, doing the Haka.   Makes a change from the French running for cover and eating cheese.   I wouldn’t have known about this, had not the Brisbane Times article caught my eye (click on the piccie to read it).   You’ll find that 98% of the Aussies reading it – some 8,300 – think that they shouldn’t have been fined, and the comments indicate that it’s time New Zealand grew up and stopped enforcing unfair rules on other teams.

Ban the Haka!