Did you hear about the Queensland pollie who took a trip up north travelling by truck (a publicity thing’o) and found the roads so rough that it triggered off her fitbit which registered as her walking 10,000 steps … without once leaving her seat.   Now that’s the way to exercise.   Or perhaps watching Star Wars in your own loungeroom with the surround sound at full blast.   That’s my dream exercise.

Or the Australian woman in ABA DHABI who was arrested for putting naughty words on a social media site.   Pity they can’t do the same thing to cyber bullies in western countries.

N.A.S.A staff are over the moon (literally) as a space craft the size of a piano (New Horizons) approaches within 12,500 ks of the dwarf planet Pluto tonight.   N.A.S.A (click nasa or photo to view) are broadcasting the whole thing live, so don’t be surprised by reports of little green men in tomorrow’s news here in Aust.   Only took a little over 9 years to get this close.   Guess you can’t rush a good thing.   Just look at the queues for a Pluto Pup at the Ekka.    Just about takes the same time some years.

Wow.   Do they breed them tough in N.S.W.   They must, in order to give any creedence to the (adult) fight that take took place (an all-in brawl -click here) inside a Sydney Playcentre in June this year.  Already 4 parents have been charged and police are trying to locate three more.

Talking about outer space, viewers who complain about how long it takes for some overseas televison shows to hit our shores should feel a bit of sympathy for how long it takes any aliens who live here on Earth to catch up on some of their programs.   Recently the AKSAP site (Radio Telescopes) in Geraldton, West Australia picked up cosmic radio waves from the galaxy PKS-B1740-517 in the southern constellation of ARA that were created BEFORE the solar system was born.

And for DOCTOR WHO fans there is a DOCTOR WHO FESTIVAL 21-22 November, 2015.   Click here to view details.

and … THE DOCTOR IS COMING BACK … SEPTEMBER 19, 2015 … CLICK…HERE..NOW TO SEE PREVIEW.

Have a bit of pity for Essendon coach James Hird who has only recently been allowed to resume his role in the club after his forced hiatus following the huge drug problem at the club over the past couple of years.   As if he, and the club, haven’t had a bad enough time in the past, now James has come off his bike (literally) on his way home from training and spent the night in hospital with concussion.  The club is unsure if he will be well enough to coach this coming weekend.

For those in Brisbane who are away at the moment, the weather here has been cool over the past few days (around 4 degrees tomorrow morning and a maximum of 15 expected, but it depends where you live to how you feel it and I have found it comfortable.   But if you listen to the media the entire state has either felt like, or been building, Frosty the Snowman.

Well that’s it for now.   Episode 8 of The Night of the Darkness is next out of the box.

There’s a poem after my goodbye – hope you enjoy

See you all soon.

Tony S

and now, for your pleasure, a short poem
I Buy You Flowers

by Tony Stewart

from Love and Other Memories vol 2

I buy you flowers
not because I need too
not for forgiveness
nor to buy some points

But I buy you flowers
because it’s something I can do
to show you in the sweetest way
how much I do love you

Roses, pansies, gerberas
it matters not what colour or what kind
but the fact I have chosen them
with the one I love in mind

So please accept this lovely bunch
with their colours of red and yellow
and white and blue
remember that I gave them to you
because I love you