My MS
by Ian Heydon

Repeat after me: I WILL NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT MY JOB…   EVER AGAIN!

You learn something new every day. With MS it could even be your own phone number. Again. Thanks to Gordon for these! Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called ‘love’? A: In France , where tennis became popular, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called ‘l’oeuf,’ which is French [...]

Darling Laura spent the weekend in Ohio, at Sandusky more specifically, even more specifically at Cedar Point Amusement Park, home to Top Thrill Dragster, the world’s tallest and fastest roller coaster – it hurtles 130m into the sky at close to 200km per hour… and Lorzy was in the front seat.  I normally give the [...]

It’s cute. It’s well-written. It’s funny. It’s accurate. (Thanks Rach!) Excerpt from a Dog’s Diary 8:00 am – Dog food! My favourite thing! 9:30 am – A car ride! My favourite thing! 9:40 am – A walk in the park! My favourite thing! 10:30 am – Got rubbed and petted! My favourite thing! 12:00 PM [...]

How sensible. How civilized. How NOT happening in Australia. It has been proven that marijuana can assist some people with MS – it can relax, improve sleep and reduce spasticity – and it is a plant, not a chemical. But it is illegal to grow or purchase. In some states in the US, it is [...]

Thanks to a reader of Peter FitzSimons’ column in the SMH for bringing this to our attention. +++ “This is serious. Please BEWARE! Over the last month I became a victim of a clever ‘eastern European’ scam while out shopping. Simply dropping into Woolies for a bit of shopping has turned out to be quite [...]

Gordon likes old people, too!  Thanks.  And ‘Maxine’ is a cool old broad… +++ A lawyer and a senior citizen are sitting next to each other on a long flight.  The lawyer is thinking that seniors are so dumb that he could get one over on them easily.  So, the lawyer asks if the senior [...]

Email from Kev – just the thought for the weekend: Sitting at my computer the other day with a nice glass of red I realised… NOBODY HAS EVER COME UP WITH A GREAT IDEA AFTER A SECOND BOTTLE OF WATER.

The old man placed an order for one plain hamburger, French fries and a drink. He unwrapped the burger and carefully cut it in half, placing one half in front of his wife. He then carefully counted out the fries, dividing them into two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife. [...]

Christmas Island is home to red land crabs. They live quietly in shady parts of the forest until the beginning of the wet season which happens about now (late October/early November). Then, at a certain moment, more than 100 million of these large crustaceans pour out of their usual habitat and race to the Indian [...]