My MS
by Ian Heydon

It’s a three-hour drive from Sydney to Canberra, plenty of time for thinking.  At the Screen & Sound Archives in Canberra is Australia’s first Oscar.  It was awarded to Ken Hall and Damian Parer (photo top) for their 1942 documentary, Kokoda Frontline.  In 1969, I was part of the first Australian school group to go [...]

Fingers crossed that this is being posted remotely coz I spent last night on the Sunshine Coast and head to Sydney today. You may recall a Brisbane visit a couple of weeks ago – this is part of the same ‘gig’ and hopefully I will be able to post remotely for the next week or so. [...]

You know when you walk into a room and don’t know what you went in there for?  Well, it’s not you! You don’t have MS or Alzheimer’s!  The doorway did it!!  Yes, the researchers at Nore Dame University say that when you pass through a doorway, your brain files what you are doing as separate [...]

Did you see during the phone-hacking inquiry that the young Welsh singer, Charlotte Church, reckons she waived her usual fee of $160,000 to sing at Rupert Murdoch’s wedding to Wendi Deng in 1999 in return for favourable treatment from News Corps British newspapers.  She must have hit a few bum notes because News of the [...]

In the same way people don’t notice types of cars that much unless they are thinking of buying one, we gimps can be like that with wheelchairs… even though we may not need one, we can’t help noticing how fast one might go or if the owner has pimped it up a tad with colour, [...]

Okay. Small faux pas. Sonya and I went to see our bank on Monday – St George, Toowoomba – I’ll give it a visual plug to say “sorry”. You see, Fiona had a sticker on her desk that had the Facebook symbol on it. I thought some mongrel ankle-biter must have stuck it there. No, Fiona [...]

Don’t click here if you have already seen this SpecSavers Ad?  If you haven’t, worthy of the click.  Once all ads had to be a tight 30 seconds – this is 41 seconds and because of the extra 11 seconds, it has the rhythm of a movie.  Great ad.  And funny! This is clever, too…

Sometimes ‘abled’ folk can be insensitive.  Chatting with a fellow MSer from the US.  It was pouring with rain as she was driving to work and, luckily, the handicap space was vacant, just a short walk from the office.  Still took her a bit of time because the rain made the tiles slippery and that can [...]