Coming up

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »

%26#149; The Non-Maltese Residents' Committee of the Legion of Mary is organising an ecumenical service at the Xag%26#295;ra parish church on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The programme includes spiritual thoughts as well as messages from Catholic and Anglican Ministers. The ...

Cummings shows practice makes perfect

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

Improving Sydney galloper Turffontein showed the benefit of a sighter when he made his second visit to Caulfield in a fortnight a winning one in the listed Wellington Club Racing Stakes over 1400 metres yesterday. The $6 chance, trained by Anthony Cummings and ridden ...

Psychics’ tricks of the trade

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | 1 Comment »

Humans havealways wanted to know what was in store in life or in death. Weve looked to the stars, peered at chicken entrails, and swirled thousands of cups of tea leaves. These days you can have astrological predictions texted direct ...

White knuckles in white water

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

Debra Solomon straps on her life jacket and heads down some wild rapids in Fiji. It's no use telling this complete novice that a whitewater rafting trip is only a grade 2/3. The numbers mean nothing, and I'd seen the movie The River Wild ...

Welcome to my lair, Mr Bond

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

Barry Stone gets over a real estate tragedy with a sublime Lake Tahoe estate that would welcome villains. As a rule, I don't discuss real estate. Well, not any more. Not since we bought into an acreage estate in Picton, an hour's drive south ...

Coming up

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »

%26#149; The Non-Maltese Residents' Committee of the Legion of Mary is organising an ecumenical service at the Xag%26#295;ra parish church on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The programme includes spiritual thoughts as well as messages from Catholic and Anglican Ministers. The ...

The highs and lows of 2007

Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »

It was a year in which fake psychics one of whom had already been exposed as such in Australia became a ratings juggernaut for a network that presumably wishes to be taken seriously. Yet, over on UKTV, we could have ...

What lies beneath

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

Ben Stubbs overcomes claustrophobia to try underground living in Tunisia. Sleeping underground is a nocturnal activity that is usually assigned to rodents, criminals on the run and miners. On the edge of the Sahara in southern Tunisia though, in the town of Matmata, sleeping beneath ...

Rudd hits accelerator on plan to attack traffic congestion

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

TRAFFIC congestion in Melbourne, Sydney and other big cities is costing the Australian economy too much, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said. Mr Rudd said Infrastructure Australia, a new advisory body ticked off by his cabinet in Perth yesterday, would look at how time could ...

The full honours list

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

ORDER OF AUSTRALIA COMPANION (AC) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION Emeritus Professor Denise Irene BRADLEY AO, Darlinghurst, NSW. For service to higher education through leadership and sector-wide governance, to the promotion of information-based distance learning, and to the advancement of Australian educational facilities internationally. The Honourable Sir John ...