Friend of Mrs Fitz, Spanish world scholar, arriving tomorrow. We've chosen for the 4 of us to go to restaurant Hellenic Republic, in Kew, Victoria, owned by an apparently famous international chef who reportedly bastardly underpays and bullies and screws his youthful staff...and bashes opposing football fans...George Colombaris. An elegant Greek Cuisine, apparently. I will review it. I will forward a copy to George Pell. Like Show More Reactions Comment Share Comments John Arthur Fitzpatrick John Arthur Fitzpatrick on 2nd thoughts, naah. Manage LikeShow More Reactions · Reply · 24m John Arthur Fitzpatrick John Arthur Fitzpatrick cancelled...booked local Yannis instead. Manage

Fish oil...doesn't work. Glucosamine...doesn't work. Vitamins, apart from B & D, don't work. As the CEO of Blackmores Labs noted...well, its not about that, it isnt about science, it is about...lifestyle. I have a life but I must admit I have never actually had a lifestyle. I'm not sure what a lifestyle actually is. I guess it is much like the Fashion of a life. Fashion, as described 500 years ago, is the ability to seem to be, rather than to be.

favourite gear/Favourite pants: Australian RM Williams black jeans made in China 2017. Favourite Jackets: China Pig leather, 2nd hand, from op shop. Camel spring and rain jacket, made in Thailand, 2012. Underpants: Rivers, Australia, made in China, circa 2010. Shoes: 1st: Caterpillar brown boots. Made in China, 2015. 2nd: Doc Martens, England, 2014. Shirts: Camel Brand long sleeve shirt, yellow, Thailand, 2013. Excellent quality. Good value. Like Comment Share Comments John Arthur Fitzpatrick Write a comment... John Arthur Fitzpatrick 19 mins · What are the Most Amazing household items you have bought in the last ten years? The Simpson 5.5kg Simple Wash washing machine, $450 in 2013. Family of 3, all OCD. Brilliant machine. The Changhong 30" Non smart TV bought $370 in 2011. Perfect. The Nissan Navara 2015 D22 dual cab 4x4 ute. $28,990. Still so very good and simple. Trouble free. Cheap to drive and maintain. Review in ten years. The second Hand ex government Apple 21.5" iMac bought 2015, $700, made circa 2013. Brilliant. The big Samsung Fridge, 2015. $900, On special. Chilled. See what its like in 5 years. The Samsung 8" tablet, $180, 2015...still great, and it actually has a phone in it too. The small $90 LG microwave...still cooking up a storm every day from 2012. The Japanese Pilot clear plastic fountain pen, and a bottle of ink...$45 all up...brilliant for 3 years now, writing every single day.

Favourite pants: Australian RM Williams black jeans made in China 2017.
Favourite Jackets: China Pig leather, 2nd hand, from op shop. Camel spring and rain jacket, made in Thailand, 2012.
Underpants: Rivers, Australia, made in China, circa 2010.
Shoes: 1st: Caterpillar brown boots. Made in China, 2015. 2nd: Doc Martens, England, 2014.
Shirts: Camel Brand long sleeve shirt, yellow, Thailand, 2013.
Excellent quality. Good value.

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What are the Most Amazing household items you have bought in the last ten years?
The Simpson 5.5kg Simple Wash washing machine, $450 in 2013. Family of 3, all OCD. Brilliant machine.
The Changhong 30" Non smart TV bought $370 in 2011. Perfect.
The Nissan Navara 2015 D22 dual cab 4x4 ute. $28,990. Still so very good and simple. Trouble free. Cheap to drive and maintain. Review in ten years.
The second Hand ex government Apple 21.5" iMac bought 2015, $700, made circa 2013. Brilliant.
The big Samsung Fridge, 2015. $900, On special. Chilled. See what its like in 5 years.
The Samsung 8" tablet, $180, 2015...still great, and it actually has a phone in it too.
The small $90 LG microwave...still cooking up a storm every day from 2012.
The Japanese Pilot clear plastic fountain pen, and a bottle of ink...$45 all up...brilliant for 3 years now, writing every single day.

AUSTRALIA:Australia is a funny country...people at 40 strive to get a Gold Card having served in the Army, to make their lives easier when medical care is free anyway. People at 20 strive to get a Disability Pension so they don't have to ever deal with people like me...and all I am is a nice guy. Australia is, and has always been, a funny country. We are independent and yet the Queen of England is our head state. On every coin of ours, there she is. If that isn't hilarious, I don't know what is. If that doesn't devalue the country, and the people of Australia, I don't know what does.

Melbourne

Melbourne has been hard. It is ridiculously expensive and the pay is significantly less for nurses than in Queensland...and the work is far harder....and hardly anyone is in a union, so you are just basically fucked n comparison.

This is not an easy town. If you have no formal recognised qualifications, they fuck you into the ground and pay $8 an hour. That's normal. $8 an hour is normal. No continuity. No superannuation, no sick pay, no holidays no overtime pay no penalties...and $8 an hour... If you have formal skills, they fuck you a bit less.

The weather is weird but better than Cairns. After a year of working our guts out as middle aged/old people not flush with millions..or with anything much....this is a hard town...the hardest ive known in my 64 years in Australia....and you do really need a good reason to establish something, but we are on the slow mend now.

Still no point to buying a house or even a flat here...but still, as retirement beckons, towns like Ballarat look just fine in comparison to both Melbourne or Cairns, price wise...

As for Melbourne being the worlds most liveable city...it just isnt. Thats a fucking lie. In many ways it is an unwelcoming and aweful dump. IT is a relatively big city of 4 million that fails its own people, every day, and enjoys and profits by screwing its own people, every day. This is true.

In its way it is much like Sydney. When Australian cities get big they become much less like places for people to live in , and more like infections.

But we, my family, have stuck to the task at hand.

We are amazing.

Move to Melbourne from the provinces ?

Yes, it can be done. But when you have done that, when your reasons for being there have passed, move away.

as i mentioned to my patient, the meaning of life has nothing to do with what you remember, because that doesn't exist anymore. The meaning of life is getting out of bed and enjoying the garden. Mind you, you don't have to. It is a reasonable garden, but it is nothing special. No one has actually leant anything about life on earth, apart from knowing we are born, live, and die, by living their life. The rest is advertising. The great and meaningful thing in life is to know that. And, occasionally, it is fun to say things that you haven't said before, rather than regurgitating the crap of others.

Within 20 years , whatever we say on facebook etc, will never be able to be seen or known... for in that future time, just down the road, we will not have the technology to remember any of us.