Bought some snap frozen prawns in Geraldton the other day, one of Australia’s preeminent fishing cities. The chatty chap who sold me the prawns told me a fascinating story. The prawn I was buying had been caught, not in WA, but off Townsville in Queensland. They had been snap frozen raw and shipped to China – yep! China! Where the worlds only automatic shelling and deveining machine lives. Apparently most shelled prawns go to China to their one off machine. After the China treatment the prawns are shipped back to Townsville, then on to Geraldton in WA where I thought [...]
An excellent cup of tea after a brilliant Marinara Spaghetti with an excellent Margaret River White wine.
Cheryl and I really enjoy our canoes. A lot of people ask us whether we think they are worth having? Our answer is , “Absolutely!” The reason we think having canoes particularly worthwhile is a little different to what you might think. The reason we love our canoes is because they enable us to see things differently. Do you know what Freshwater Bay or the Grenough River or even the Cottesloe pylon looks like from on the water? Not in it but on it? We get an entirely different perspective from our canoes than walking on the bank or stopping [...]
This is our first holiday without children. It’s overcast and windy and Port Denison isn’t a very “doing” place. It’s interesting how much internal pressure there is to do something! People come in and out of the beachside caravan park where we are staying; they’re doing something! Is there something wrong with people who don’t want to do something? Is there something wrong with me? Cheryl and I have decided to be militant about not doing. It is good to dwell, read, drink coffee, toddle down to buy the milk, read, snooze. It is okay! Boy, it takes some discipline [...]
Paula Gooder Looks Like a Good One
I met Dr Paula at a recent Diocesan Missions Conference. What a lovely lady. Her academic passion is the Apostle Paul. What a joy to meet a bright, well credentialled, woman who likes Paul. She reckons he’s greatly maligned and a great liberator of men and women. Paula took a bible study on 1 Peter at the conference. She is whitty, funny and makes her point with a lightness and inclusivity that people who love God and the Bible seem able to do. If you want to read a book on Paul that will open your eyes and mind to [...]
Well Fellas, this book is a must. My beloved purchased it several years ago and there were lots of ahahs and giggles as she gobbled up chapters like Just Do It!, Laundry Gets You Laid and Get That Thing Away From Me! This is a his and hers book written by a renowned therapist and while balanced is friendly to the males challenge to communicate and express feelings in this most sensitive of areas for many couples. You don’t need to fear this book. It’s style names the elephants in the room without taking sides and in doing so gives [...]
There seems a lot to read at the moment and I find the whole “does God exist?” a bit of a been there done that bore. Having said that, I’m reading a book by Peter Hitchens, the well aired and vitriolic anti-Christian Christopher Hitchens’ brother. As fate or God would have it, Peter is a devoted Anglican Christian of over 25 years. While Christopher, along with his mate and sidekick Professor Dawkins, rail at Christian hypocrisy and soft headedness, Peter shares his testimony from atheism to faith. I’m only a little way in but the themes are familiar; we come [...]
the web log of Malcolm Potts…
