Excitement is in the air! Only 22 days till the Fat man leaps down the chimney, stuffs the reindeer in the linen cupboard, guzzles all your brandy, erects the kids' swing set in the bathroom and lights his own farts from your barbeque. Or we may be...

Andrew just reminded me of the long running joke we had on our radio show, which involved the vanished Miranda of Picnic at Hanging Rock infamy. Remember the shrieked "Mirandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"? ...

It's the 4th! The 4th, I tell you! Are the pressies all bought...wrapped...food sorted...guests invited...cards written....brewery invested in....house spotless and the rest of the usual stuff? What do you mean 'no' ??? But it's the 4th! It's Navy...

Stuffs happened, people woke up, put on their clothes and did abnormally boring things - and some weird-arse things - that were noted by some little gremlin in the history books that everyone is forced to read in school today, curing their insomnia...

Today is World Aids Day. Wear a ribbon. 1817 Governor Macquarie was getting a tad tired of the early mornings in NSW so he tendered his resignation to Earl of Bathurst. Earl Bathurst wasn't keen on Macquarie leaving the Land of Oz so he jollied him...