• It must be that I am an unrecognised and untapped keg of astute political potential. An unhatched egg of statesmanship, just waiting to be sat [...]

  The Woomera rocket range

  February 28, 2013
• The Bucket’s Special Minority Languages Unit, in consultation with some of the world’s  pre-eminent linguistic scholars, is proud to [...]

  Melanesian tok pisin: Lesson #1

  February 24, 2013
• Disclaimer;  Dr Fill and Dr GOF are products of my imagination. Any similarity to persons either living or dead is entirely coincidental.   [...]

  Counselling Doctor Fill

  February 13, 2013
• This is for my new friend, 6 year-old Tristan Bjelke-Whitlam who attends the Toorak Special School for the socially disadvantaged.   Tristan [...]

  GOF’s Olde English nursery rhymes

  February 8, 2013

• Each one of us enters the world with a special gift to bestow upon the remainder of humanity. Franz Liszt enriched the world with his music. [...]

  Snakes alive……..and some not.

  February 4, 2013
• (another rhapsodic and poetic offering from GOF) Enchanting trickles wayside rill, Bubbling merrily down the hill. Joyful gurgling, [...]

  The rill on the hill

  January 25, 2013
• Oh yes, I’m talking once again about Sharapova and Azarenka, those two shrieking and screaming ex-Soviet disgraces to both professional [...]

  Gawd strewth mate, they’re back ‘ere again!

  January 22, 2013
• Warning;   Contains childish themes. Guidance from a juvenile recommended. *      *      *      *      *      [...]

  The Piles Foundation

  January 8, 2013

• Normally on Christmas Day Mrs GOF cheerfully decorates, cooks, drinks more red wine than is strictly required to reap any health benefits, and [...]

  The Summer of my Discontent.

  January 4, 2013
• Cooking in the 21st century has become unnecessarily complicated.  It’s like employing a helicopter to relocate a baby wombat from one [...]

  GOF’s gift to gastronomy

  December 31, 2012