On Nursing: When I was 17 I went to a career aptitude testing centre and the result came out that I should be a Judge. Personally, i have never been interested in judgment. I tend to think that they laws are somewhat grey obstacles throughout life without any particular meaning at all. I investigated Journalism because I like to write things but the problem with Journalism is that you are always writing for an Owner, a newspaper, or whatever...and that didn't interest me. Anyway, leaving school at 18 I became an editor for a multi-cultural multi-lingual publisher for ten years and that was quite good. The publishing world changed, some colleagues had died, and so I went and did Nursing...and specialised in terminal care pain pathways and potent therapies...and did that for 30 years...and did it well enough...two years out of College, I was a DON, then a DON somewhere else etc..then senior project writer etc...contributor to the Government on Health etc...then set up systems of care etc and it was kind of worthwhile to me, but I was never interested in management at all. It was and is just tedious and repetitive and boring.. Now I'm doing some Mental Health nursing, and it is ok. On the whole, looking back I think I have contributed more to Care than care has given back...and I don't mind that.That's the Old Philosophy of it anyway. Would I do it all again? None of it...maybe the Editing for a decade, sure, but beyond that I think I would have preferred a late apprenticeship in Welding. True. I like welding. Lighting up an arc in a crowded underground room, fixing something permanently, then drifting from trade into sculptures, then gold smithing...that kind of thing. As the best writer of the English language living, Kazuo Ishiguro noted "I could have had another life, but I am having this one." I agree.

Raymond Plumbing of Manoora, Cairns

Well the plumber has been and gone. 15 minutes to fix the blocked drain in the bathtub. He said it was all the long hair...i said, well, that would have been me then...so we laughed. Excellent service, fast and efficient and friendly.

Julian Assange, from Townsville, Queensland, Australia. A real Australian. A great man.

so the Americans feel, and really believe, that Russia is responsible for the Wikileaks emails...they really believe this...Jesus, these people have real problems. Well done Julian.We live just up the road 5 hours from where you were born and raised. Immensely proud. you have already changed the world for the better...bringing light to some objective truths.... Outstanding.

We live just 5 hours up the road from Townsville Queensland Australia where you were born and raised, and we are immensely proud of your great honest objective work in this sordid world.

anyone want to catch up on facebook, it's john fitzpatrick, cairns, queensland, australia

pics of The suspicious probably Russian Turtle House World Corporate Team from Wikileaks Files

Well, we are off to Townsville 17th November to collect daughter DJ Wawa's goods and chattels, and DJWAWA herself, for the University holiday. A five hour drive by Nissan Navara Dual Cab Ute (The Diamond Vehicle). I must get the Grand Array of LED light-bar spotlights reconnected for the journey ... through the dangerous malevolent kangaroo infested topography betwixt here and there. I have great concerns about the number of Koran reading devotee radicalised Syrian marsupials out there.