Author: Bearsy

A Queensland Bear with attitude

Have you seen my cows?

Last night Boadicea and I cooked a roast for our Aussie grandson and his current girlfriend.

She’s every inch a modern Brisbane girl; she’s tall, elegant, intelligent, poised, and has that sort of healthy physique that tells you she would be equally at home on the high-fashion catwalk as she would be as a beach-bunny surfing a 5 metre wave or outback wrestling a croc – and winning.

At present she’s teaching in Charters Towers, a small rural town in far north Queensland, one of the places where cyclone Yasi stormed through earlier this year.   She entertained us with stories of the storm and chatted about the effect on the local children of the recent Gillard knee-jerk halt on live cattle exports.

But the tale she told us to illustrate some of the differences she’s found between life in the capital city and in her bush town, bears repeating. Continue reading “Have you seen my cows?”

Adverts? What Adverts?

Two Charioteers have questioned me about advertisements appearing on The Chariot.

WordPress reserve the right to place adverts on free blogs, but ever since we began we have noticed that –

  • They never appear when one is logged in.
  • They sometimes, but not always, appear when one is not logged in.

If you are still seeing adverts after you have logged in, please let me know so that I can ask for clarification from WordPress.   We have no control over which adverts are displayed, or whether or not they appear.

A plea to Val

Please will you cease deleting your posts within a few hours of publishing them.   Of course you have every right to do so, but it is most disconcerting to go to re-read an interesting comment, or to have another squiz at your excellent photographs, only to find that yesterday’s post has disappeared without trace.

It also has the effect of removing your gravatar from the “Authors’ Archives”, and of leaving a large number of enormous image files orphaned within the media store.

RIP Tocino

Tocino has passed away – he died last Wednesday, the 21st.

Boadicea has been in regular contact with Toc, so we were aware of his ill health, which he did not wish to be made public.   Around the beginning of this month he was told that he had six months to live, but in his last e-mail – a couple of weeks ago –  he mentioned that he had been receiving extra treatment.

Tocino was an excellent blogger and a good cyber-friend.    We shall miss him greatly.

Our heartfelt sympathy to his wife and family.

Feedback please

I have changed the way in which slideshows are displayed in order to accommodate captions with two lines of text, which both Boadicea and Bravo have needed for their latest posts.

The modifications to the CSS sheets (don’t worry about it) have been tested in Chrome and Explorer 9, and everything works as it should in those two browsers.   I’ve also tested the alterations in SeaMonkey, which uses much of the same Mozilla code as Firefox, so all should be well there too.

But if something seems to be wrong with slideshows in your browser, I’d appreciate your comment with the details.

Thanks. 😀

 

Why?

Why does the USA continue to kill its own citizens?

The “Leader of the Free World” tries to spread its version of “democracy” beyond its borders; it physically attacks Libya for mowing down its civilians and verbally attacks Syria for the same crime.   It holds itself as a model for other countries to emulate, criticising, inter alia, the Chinese Human Rights record.

Yet it still murders its criminals, assuming the right of the nation to take life.   I don’t know if the guy was guilty.  There does appear to be at least reasonable doubt; more than a hint of having been framed by a racist police force.   But even if he was as guilty as Hell, what message does it send to the rest of the world?

America straps its people to a table, injects them with poison and ghoulishly watches them die in agony.   Bastards!

Embarrassing, unintelligent rabble

No, not my opinion, for I know nothing of Rugby Union – or of Rugby of any flavour, come to that.   But in pursuit of Cuprum‘s vehement assertions, I have diligently perused the Australian media and distilled their informed views – which include the hindsight realisations of both the Wallabies captain and coach – into my headline.

Rather than attempting to understand the finer points of the articles and to précis their wisdom – a course of action that would be highly unwise for a Rugby rabbit – I present my evidence as links –

So whichever way you look at it – sorry Cuprum, but you were wrong.   In spades.
We was wubbish! 😥