8...A Meme....

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This Meme started some time ago over with Miss Savannah and more recently reared itself again over at Castle  DeVice so I thought that it was time that I gave it a go after promising myself to do it back then at Savannah's then letting myself down...

So without further ado...
Eight Answers to Eight Questions

Why did you start Blogging.

 I  originally stumbled across a little old blog called "Infomaniac" run by someone calling themself "Mistress MJ" and soon fell under her magical spell. I thought that it looked like a lot of fun and that I too could enter this wonderful and creative world of blogging. So...After Lurking around for some time and then leaving the occasional comment I took the plunge and quietly emailed the Dear Mistress for some pointers on how to go about it. Like starting a Blog I mean. Not having a computer until late last year I felt like such a beginner. She responded with some firm and very helpful guidance and so... on the 17th Of December 2009 "Palais de Steff" entered the blogosphere...With Princess at the helm.

I really enjoy the conversations I have and the comments that people leave in relation to the posts I create and put out there.

And I really appreciate the on line friendships that I have developed.

Some of my posts are of a more personal nature and others are just for pure fun and enjoyment and attempted entertainment.

And if you are reading this then I thank you for continuing to drop by...

Travel anywhere in the World with no restrictions on cost... Where would it be and why?

I would love to do a world tour, every country state and territory and just spend time with the people. using every type of transport. The touristy attraction things look nice and showy but it is what lies beneath this veneer to the world that really intrigues me.

What is it really like to have to live your life in these places. Surviving on a day to day basis. Under self serving governments and restrictive regimens. Managing things like drought, famine, flood, earthquakes, volcano's, tsunami, disease, war, sexual, religious, and ethnic intolerance.

Not knowing if you would have clean water let alone food for the next days survival.

I think that I have it pretty easy all things considered.

Does the world really care about the stock market? Or about Paris and her latest Fuck? I doubt that people looking for their next meal even know what or who it is... or could care less

Shares? You give me some of your water/food/money... we shares! 

Apart from attempting to get a handle on how folks survive....

I would also like to get away from people and just explore the natural world.

Hug a few trees. Watch a few sunrises and sets. Stand in a tropical downpour.

Say hello to some animals in the wild. .... Are there any left?

Did you have a teacher at school that had a great influence on your life? if so what?

If you managed to wade through the self indulgent drivel that I wrote accompanying the last Movie Cilp Wednesday Post 

You may  or may not have read  about a teacher that caused me much teenage angst.

He was my History Teacher and I fell in love/lust with him. And despite my lame excuses and dishonesty in not owning my true feelings at the time... which were quite unbearable... looking back... I really have a lot to thank him for.

The feelings and attraction that I had toward men then... and earlier... and I mean really masculine looking men like my teacher was... did not go away then and never have. (Show me a well built man with a 5 o'clock shadow and I still melt.)

But what he unconciously (at least I don't think he realised my true predicament and the impact that he had on me... but then I've never possessed a working gaydar...) did for me was to make me realise... right then... that I was infact same sex attracted. And despite many years of denial and embarrasing attempts to prove to everyone the contrary... I still am.

So thank you "Mr Hunky History Teacher" for allowing me to put you up on my pedestal of my Ideal man. And if you are still out there, and my gaydar wasn't working... and you're up for it... (I have wrinkles too now) and your reading this... Drop me a comment... and we can hook up!

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If you could spend a day with a famous person, who would it be? And what would you do?

There are far too many famous, infamous and wannabe famous people scattered throughout the annals of history and far too many to be bothered with today. I would really like to go back and visit the people that really mattered. Not the person titled as famous but some of the people around them that assisted in getting them to fame closest confidants, a personal secretary, a dresser, an editior or proof reader, instrument maker or tuner one of their colleagues, best friends, lovers.

Their maid or butler might be able to shed some very interesting light on the behind the scenes activities of many a famous person.

I don't particularly want to meet any of them... I might have met them already and not even known... Fame is just not that important..

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Toilet paper. Over or Under?

A Bear and a Rabbit met in the woods one day while both taking a crap.

The bear looking down to the rabbit asked...

 " Hey Rabbit... I got a question to ask you. Do you ever have a problem with the shit sticking to the hairs around your arse?"

The Rabbit looking rather startled by such an intimate question from the Bear ... thought for a while..... then looked up and replied...

" W..W.. Well... No.. I can't say It has ever been a problem for me."

And with that...

The Bear picked up the Rabbit and wiped his arse with him.

Save for keeping a cage full of rabbits next to the loo at "The Palais"... unless of course I have a bear staying over...

The toilet paper always comes off  from OVER the roll..

 

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Name the one thing in life that you would do over if possible.

I wouldn't be the person I am today without all the alchemy of lifes' rich ingredients. Being mixed, stirred, separated, added, poured out, bottled, shaken, roasted, boiled, chilled, canned, thrown out or taken away at the very time that they were.
 Sure.... things get over done, under done, stay pretty raw, go cold, curdle, come out all right, look OK but turn out different to how you thought it would, smell great until you see the mould, turn sour, go stale and even burn.
 Who has the recipe for the perfect life anyway?

 Its all about experimenting along the way Isn't it?

Tasting a little of this... Swollowing some of that... Spitting out the chunks... Regurgitaing the stuff that doesn't sit well. Like an old cow chewing it over and forcing it back down even though you didn't like it the first time around and hell maybe even getting to the point of vomiting some of the self absorbed crap and flushing it once and for all.
Some of lifes ingredients can Look Sound Taste Feel and Smell really bad sometimes but no one says you have to injest them.

And then on the other hand there are so many ingredients that are just the contrary and make such a wonderful recipe if your not to scared to give them a little try.
Compassion, understanding , tolerance, acceptance, kindness, friendship, thoughtfulness, trust, honour, self awareness, honesty
caring, sharing, selflessness,  respect and being true to yourself
A tinkture of happiness
And a spattering of love to bind it all together.

I used to look at other peoples recipe's and think, if only I'd had their ingredients, my life would be so much better, different, richer, better... I'd be forever trying to add some of their ingredients to my recipe but it never seemed to work out as good. Or would end in complete failure... I couldn't work out what the missing ingredient was.
Then it dawned on me one day...I'd been leaving out the most important ingredient. Me!

Then I realised that I was the crafter of my own very unique recipe.

 It was my recipe with a list of family ingredients inhrerited via chromozomes. Ideas, traditions and belief systems passed down verbally and through actions and observation form generation to generation.
 I discovered eventually that I had the opportunity to distil my own recipe from all of this...
Some ingredients just didn't taste right, sound right, smell right, look right, or particularly feel right. Some ingredients I discovered were well past their use by date. Some of the traditional ones had lost their impact or were too tired and worn to keep ... and as the glut of passed down traditional family recipe's festered and fermented away in my gut from year to year...
I suddenly realised that had the chance to add my own fresher healthier less self limiting ingredients, spice things up a little and create a new recipe to suit my own palette.

My recipe is still a work in progress and I have no regrets even though some of the ingredients were quite un palettable and stank at the time.
I'm still adding new ingredients and am discarding ones that have lost their potency
It is never to late to start cooking...  

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Tell us about your pets if any.

Again... if you have been a regular visitor you will already know about the passing of

"Sir Fred"

A long time companion and good mate but there is also another beastie in the mix. That being the Empresses Pampered pooch... Abby a little Shitzu/Maltese cross who is now the grand old age of 10.

She has happily taken up the cudgel from Sir Fred in running the house hold now and time shares between the Empresses and mine.

You can see her photo by scrolling right to the bottom of the page...

There are also a couple of budgerigars and several goldfish in the fernery pond.

I do miss Sir Fred

Do you live in a small or large town?

Bendigo is a growing inland city in central Victoria Australia. One of many similar towns  established in the gold rush era of the 1850's

It is about 3 hrs drive North fom Melbourne the capital city of Victoria.

The population has just hit 100,000 and continues to rise with "Tree Changers" and new young families moving up from big city life in the hope of finding it cheaper to live. I'd hate to be the one to dissappoint them.

Surrounded by native forrest and rolling farmland it feels like living in a big old country town.

Historical mid 1800 Buildings line the streets as testament to it's gold mining history and the wealth that gold generated.

Older parts of town show a wide variety of building styles through the years and many are heritage listed. Even the Palais which is an old miners cottage

has heritage listing.

Historically multi cultural with a large chinese influence. A Dragon festival is held each year over the easter break with the "Waking of Sun Loong"  the Chinese Dragon. the largest outside of mainland china in the southern hemisphere. His father "Loong" is the oldest and now is in retirement and on permanent display at the chinese museum.

There is a big arts community with the centre piece being the Capitol Theatre and the Art gallery next door. 

Ther a re many large formal public gardens and walking malls for those more inclined to shopping...

Several large lakes used for rowing and surrounded buy parkland, A brickworks and pottery museum, You can do a talking tram tour to see some of the sights around town including a couple of old goldmines, heaps of cafe's restaurants and pubs. Almost a pub on every corner.

We hold the dubious title of "Hoon" Capital of the entire country with the most cars impounded by police for idiots showing off in their cars...

And there is always some sort of festival going on and a craft and farmers market every weekend.

I guess i like it here....

A Perfect Man?... Meme....

Well I've been Memed...

This Meme originated with Miss Scarlet who passed it on to Roses who gave it to Hayward who has kindly passed it on to me. 

Sounds like tracing partners at the pox doctors clinic ... "Well Princess your tests are back and it looks like a nasty case of Meme. Who else might have been exposed that we should notify?"

A rather unsavoury social disease that it is. You just never know when you might get it...But the culprit is more than happy to tell you that you are getting the next dose...

And... Well... I quite like doing them. But don't tell anyone else

 Sorry I'm a little tardy in my response but I have been a little under the weather this past week... No really... Breathing feels like razorblades, a Rib breaking cough from hell and temperature raging in the low 40's
Off to the "Pox Dr" Tomorrow...

In the meantime here is my effort.

Princess' secret ingredients for the Perfect Man....

1. He must be in possession of a wicked sense of humour and enjoy a bit of fun. A cute smile and a little glint in his eye. 



2. Is able recognise the need for and respect each others space.

 We don't have to be joined at the hip. But can pursue our own separate hobbies and interests and... if they overlap sometimes well that's just a bonus...


3. To be able to communicate his needs and emotions openly and honestly.

 I am not a mind reader and therefore can't always know what he's thinking or feeling. But I am more than willing to listen because I am genuinely interested in him and I care.

4. Is a good listener.
And can just lay with me without expecting it to lead to sex. Oh I forgot. He's a bloke and so am I..Well that is just not going to happen......
Maybe after he's listened enough and hasn't started snoring...5. As you are well aware. Looks in a man are unimportant to Princess...
 as you will have probably noted from the numerous and often repugnant bush pigs that I have posted here at "The Palais" over time...

I realise that I am no Caravggio myself... but I'm comfortable in my own skin.

 So... as long as he doesn't make me vomit when I meet him and similarly when he meets me... I'll be happy.

6. I must insist however that he be a male and in possession of a fully functional cock.
Knowing exactly when and how to use it.

7. He will buy me flowers just because he want's to. Without the need for occasion or sense of obligation...
 Same goes for chocolates or alcohol or any other little trinkets he wishes to shower upon me.
Just to surprise me occasionally.

8. Must have a sense of adventure and not just in the boudior...
The same old same old can get a little tiresome.
A willingness to break from routine and embrace the occasional change would be admirable..

9. A complete absence of the driving need to posses the latest fad, trend, gadget or material social status item so as to be seen to be "keeping up with the Jones'" is also a very attractive quality.

Nor should he be obsessed with making oodles and oodles of money.
It can buy you neither love nor happiness.


10. An ability to scrub up well in a suit and tie and smell like a real man...
Mmmmm....Delicious...
11. An ability to write love letters penned by his own hand and in real ink would be a big turn on... 
To have a little Artistic Bent might also be nice..

12. The possession of a thorough knowledge of intimate seduction...

 Including but not exclusively involving candle lit moments, the burning of insense or aromatherapy oils, wonderfully sensual massage and appropriate mood music would be an advantage. Did I mention Flowers?


13. As a considerate soul he would always remember to leave the toilet seat up... And Always Always Flush...


14. Above all... He must posess a demonstrated ability to remember my name rather than his alleged terms of endearment ...
 One does get rather sick of being referred to as..."Hey slapper"... "are you awake"...    "Bitch...I'm feeling horny get on your knees." or just "Come over here and open your mouth I've got something for you Slut"


Now, like every cock loving man I don't mind being stabbed in the back with the occasional throbbing hardon during the wee hours of the morning...
If I'm not feeling in the mood though I will insist that he gets up and takes it out for a piss...
Nor am I averse to assuming the kneeling position and responding to his fantasy names whenever the mood takes him during our "role play" sessions...

But...Outside of those times...

For Fucks Sake Call Me Princess...

*Note to self... Go out and find a nice man that is willing to start seeing me that learns my name first...*

In answer to your questions Mr XL....

I am Princess and I'm an Infomaniac... Bitch!


Prior to recent events  I had prepared the following responsed to questions posted on Xl's Blog some time ago. I have added a few more of my own posers at the bottom of the page... 

1. Coke or Pepsi?

I originally drank Coke for years then got tired of it and swiched to pepsi then as an individual stand against  Global Branding and duopolies now dont drink either and I dont miss either either. Vodka works much better.


2. Do you play a musical instrument?
Not for a long time but i did play acoustic/folk guitar and played the clarinet. I still have a clarinet and occasionally get it out and have a blow...


3. If you could go back in time, would you make a different decision in your life?

I think the only decision that I would conscider in order to make things a little different would be to tell the people in my life that are nolonger that I loved them more often... Life is too short and we never know when someone that we love and sometimes take for granted are not in our lives any more... and once they are gone there is no way to tell them how much they were loved.. i often console myself by saying that they knew how much I loved them... but did they really know this... did I acknowledge just how much their presence meant to me while they were around and did I affirm these feelings by saying out aloud "I Love You"
I've taken the time to tell my family and friends openly just how much they mean to me and am able to let them know just how much they are loved. Otherwise  I hold no regrets and would'nt change a thing.

4. Which sport do you consider to be "football?"

Aussie Rules of course! But I will admit that "The World Game" does cross all borders even if I still refer to it as Soccer.. (Hey our National team is called the "Socceroos") despite my dour scot of a great grandfther giving me a clip over the ears when I did so. The Female National team "The Matildas" Just won the Asian cup and are off to the womens world cup too.


5. Do you like to travel?

I love to travel. I have been all around Australia, Visiting all states and territories and living for a while in several of them, mostly Victoria, Northern Queensland and Western Australia. I have had one major trip Overseas to China. It was mostly holiday and touring but for one week stayed at the Bejing Institute of Sport studying TaiChi with a couple of the Masters. A fantastic experience and one that I will never forget.
I haven't aspired to travel overseas since then but plan to one day.

6. Do you like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain?

Pina Colladas? Honestly I have never had one, but I love getting caught in the rain. Even when it is cold.
I'm not much into health food, but I have half a brain, I've never made love at midnight in the dunes by the cape, but hey... I'm willing to give it a try, though I did get lucky one time at around midnight while skinny dipping in the hotsprings at Mataranka. My bathers floated away never to be seen again and I had to walk back to the campground  in the nude... that was fun.

7. Surely you like cats, right?

To be honest I get an allergic reaction to Cat Saliva. However I do like other peoples cats, just so long a pussy doesn't lick me. And It's not like I'd be licking any pussy... I did try it once or twice but I'm cured now.


8. Beatles or Stones?

I tend to spray unwanted beetles but do try to encourage helpful lady bugs and I decorate with stones... they make wonderful paths and look great when large ones are arranged as a feature/focal point in the garden... Oh.. you mean the musical types....

Sorry but It has to be the beatles, given that I have played and sung so many of there songs over the years.
I was never really into the Stones although I do like some of their tunes, I'm a bit eclectic with music as clarinet was mainly clasically focussed when I had lessons and guitar was more folk oriented. Then I discovered the joys of Jazz and I was hooked on the old standards. 


9. Which foreign languages can you speak (regardless of fluency)?

None apart from odd words or greetings in French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Greek and Italian and German but don't try to get me to spell any of them here..

10. What special meal would you prepare for me?

I'd prepare any meal that your heart desired. I love cooking and will give anything a bash (Then cook it for you) No... I mean it name something and i'll have a go at making it for you.


6 Extra Questions... One easy answer.

1. Which Blogging platform removes it's user's blogs without notice?

2. Which Blogging platform removes my followers avitar from my blog and their comments from my comment form without prior notice or consultation
so that both just "magically' disappear?

3. Which Blogging platform states that they are not in the business of blatant censorship?

4. Which Blogging Platform could seriously do with an overhaul of its customer service department and help line?

5. Which Blogging Platform States in it's terms of use...

"We respect our users' ownership of and responsibility for the content they choose to share."
"It is our belief that censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression." ?

Yeah Right....


6. Which Blogging platform is run by hypocrites?

There can only be one answer to the above Questions.


I'm Princess and I'm an Infomaniac. Bitch.

From...'Blogger' user terms of reference.


"Blogger is a free service for communication, self-expression and freedom of speech. We believe Blogger increases the availability of information, encourages healthy debate, and makes possible new connections between people.

We respect our users' ownership of and responsibility for the content they choose to share.It is our belief that censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression.

In order to uphold these values, we need to curb abuses that threaten our ability to provide this service and the freedom of expression it encourages. As a result, there are some boundaries on the type of content that can be hosted with Blogger. The boundaries we've defined are those that both comply with legal requirements and that serve to enhance the service as a whole.
Adult Content:
We do allow adult content on Blogger, including images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity. But, please mark your blog as 'adult' in your Blogger settings.
Otherwise, we may put it behind a 'mature content' interstitial.
There are some exceptions to our adult content policy:
Do not use Blogger as a way to make money on adult content.
For example, don't create blogs where a significant percentage of the content is ads or links to commercial porn sites.
We do not allow image, video or text content that depicts or encourages incest or bestiality.
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Don't post content just to be shocking or graphic.
For example, collections of close-up images of gunshot wounds or accident scenes without additional context or commentary would violate this policy.
Our team reviews these flags for policy violations.
If the blog does not violate our policies, we will not take any action against the blog or blog owner.

If we find that a blog does violate our content policies, we take one or more of the following actions based on the severity of the violation:
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10 Question Meme

These initial ten questions were forwarded to me as a meme tag by the lovely Ms Roses via I think the originator Dear Mago who posted them in response to the lovely Miss Scarlet’s request.






1) Do you believe in ghosts?


Isn’t that a spooky question? I was just discussing it with my dear friend 'Casper' whom assured me that there are ghosts and that he just happened to be a friendly one.
I told him that he was talking 'crapola...
 “Bullshit Casper” I said, until I was rudely interrupted by the rattling of chains and things going bump in the night and objects strangely moving of their own accord.

"Well that should change your opinion" laughed Casper...
It certainly gave me food for thought..

I do believe that the energy of a person remains as a presence for some time in or around the place that meant the most to them in life or their energy attaches itself to the energy around a loved one until they move on the next part of their spirit journey.



I have often felt a presence when entering new buildings or houses. I have never been frightened as such but get more of a sense of the type of person that they were in life. Sometimes I am able to sense things about the person or “Ghost” if you like that can be confirmed by people that knew them in life, at other times I get given a picture or image of an item that I see in my minds eye or a word that keeps repeating in my head. Sometimes it is a physical sensation that I experience which means nothing to me at the time and often I dismiss it off hand.

But often there is someone that I will meet and talk to about the experience and discover that they knew of the person i'm describing or that they had pain or an injury in the area that I sensed it in, before they died. It doesn’t happen to me all the time and often I am not consciously trying to make a connection, it just seems to happen.

“Casper! For Fucks sake will you stop flying through me like that, you keep turn my innards all cold!’






2) Are you content with your life?


Well I don’t have many other options at present so I guess that yes I am generally content with my life, Though, I would like to be in better health than I am in at the moment. But that is in train. I’m over a long Battle with Major Depression. But, I finally after many years of torment and distress, have managed to finally give him his marching orders.
He was rather slow on the uptake but I am at a stage now in my life that should I choose to invite him back it will be a purely unhealthy indulgence on my part.






3) Have you ever been at or close to point blank?


Yes. There have been times in my life when going on all seemed too much. When death seemed like a better option and a quick fix to remedy the painful feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and self loathing. These feelings were often helped along by Major Depressions’ whisperings and subtle cajoling.

But, after living through my fathers suicide and Knowing the effect that his sudden and seemingly inexplicable death had on myself, his wife (my mother) and my other siblings, extended family and his friends and work mates left behind, I decided that I couldn’t do that to the people around me that loved me (even though I felt so unworthy and unlovable) and that I loved, knowing that they would be left behind dealing with overwhelming grief without explanation and the never ending search for answers.


4) Is philosophy necessary?


Well I had a tree fall in my back yard the other day and I’m pretty sure that no one heard it clapping! Well at least I didn’t anyway. I was to busy considering the number of angels that would fit on the head of a pin and exploring the meaning of life and imagining that the world existed as a speck of dirt under some huge beings fingernail. I try to practice being like the uncarved block and am always kind to cows. Does any of this count? 

5) Do you live with books?


Yes I’m surrounded by books, they line my walls and I am one of those people that have great difficulty in parting with books once they find their home on my shelves. I have very eclectic tastes and often have two or three books on the go at the same time. I am not unknown to have read the same book several times over. Not straight after reading it of course but months or even some years later.

I don’t stick to any one particular genre and don't ask me who the author is as I won't be able to tell you but... I try to avoid horror, space travel, and alien invasions. But I have read all the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, and all of Harry Potter several times over. I do enjoy a good murder mystery or conspiracy theory with spy thrillers thrown in for good measure. The occasional period romance is a light and fluffy change of pace, biographies and gay anthologies and fictional tales also find there way to my shelves.

As I said I’m an eclectic when it comes to reading mater. Oh I also have several shelves of reference books for Gardening, Patchwork, Arts and Crafts, Massage and Aromatherapy, Complimentary therapies, and Metaphysical/Spiritual Practices and theories. Oh... and a couple of shelves of now vintage childrens storybooks and almanacs. Its sad when your childhood reading is naw classed as vintage....


6) Have you ever been on stage?


The world is a stage…. And all the men and women are players upon it aren’t they?
Well, yes I have. I was always in Plays and Musicals at High school, I sang soprano as a soloist and played clarinet solos in school music festivals and competitions.


I played guitar and sang in concerts and at church functions with a folk group as a teen and later sang tenor with a choir as an adult, we were called the Mountain Minstrels.

I sang a solo “Endless Love” at my sisters wedding during the signing of the register and another couple of songs later at the reception in front of 250 people.


At parties I would get requests to sing Noel Coward and Cole Porter and at the Local Jazz club would often get dragged up to sing a few old standards…


I have also helped backstage and trained the kids’ chorus to sing for a production of “The Wizard of Oz” at my youngest brothers’ high school and helped making the costumes for a local Musical Theatre Production of “Anything Goes” and “Mozart” and costumes for a local high schools interpretive dance group.






I have emceed a retro fashion show for a local community group fund raiser. I had a Gig playing Father Christmas for several years with a professional photographer at a local shopping centre and still volunteer for a community service group each year playing Father Christmas and handing out presents to the oldies at the local hospice and then to all the kid in the district at the local town hall. Gifts for anywhere up to 200 kids.

So yes Princess has been on stage.


7) Do you regularly read a printed newspaper?


No. I find Newspapers to be very boring and usually filled with alarmist drivel and misinformation often just cut and pasted from other publications. I only purchase a newspaper to line the bottom of my budgerigar cage.


I prefer listening to talkback radio and occasionally but very rarely news on the television.

8) Are you afraid of the future?


Not for me personally but the generations that come after me I do hold fears for but also hope that the youth of the future will be more informed and able to sort the chaff from the grain.

The world is getting crazier every day and there are real basic issues that just are not being addressed. Clean water and food supplies, basic health needs, the challenge of a changing climate, relance on finite fossil fuels. “Big Business” and its insidious control and surreptitious manipulation and calling of the shots globally. Manipulation and alarmist reporting of the truth by the media and associated government spin as opposed to unbiased reporting of the news or the truth. The increasing manipulation and behind the scenes machinations if the stock market and the purported attitude that the accumulation of money is the highest defining attribute of being human frightens me. Generation of Corporate wealth, managerial bonuses and shareholder dividends are more important and take priority over social responsibility.


The expectation that to be successful one must consume, consume, and continue to consume and have the very latest gadget that is released onto the unsuspecting public. There is also a pervasive reluctance to take personal responsibility for our individual actions and the expectation for the Government of the day to take responsibility for individual lack of boundaries and personal integrity. "It’s the governments’ responsibility" to resolve every issue that arises is the cry. Well in some situations it is appropriate to legislate but, what about our own personal responsibility? But I might have to do something on a personal level like stop buying a product, adjust my attitude or change my behaviour to or actually think about an issue. Gosh i might even be able to come up with an alternative or even a solution. 

But if the response to every issue is to legislate due to public pressure then we open ourselves up to external controlling elements.
And through this process we are being lead closer to becoming a "Nanny State". In my opinion socialism is on the rise, on a global scale.

9) Do you know yourself?


Do I know myself? Yes, only, too well.



10) Will you play on?


I don’t think I'll tag anyone in particular as most of you have already participated in some way shape or form but for anyone that would like to do some future probing...



Here are another 10 questions to ponder. If you do find the time to answer them i'd be more than happy to read your responses on your blog...






1) You go to a new place that you are unfamiliar with. People are there, doing something that you have always wanted to try but have never actually done.


Do you, turn around and leave, stand around the edges watching or take the opportunity and get involved with the activity? What is your reason for your response?


2) What is the first physical attribute that you notice about a person and what is it about that attribute that gets your attention when you meet them?

3) What is it that you do that makes you feel good about yourself?

4) It is your Birthday… Do you celebrate it with gusto or just let it pass quietly, without, so much as a word to anyone? And what is your reason.

5) You are an artist, what is your field and what first attracted you to it?

6) You are creating a new home you have a choice between installing fossil fuel or renewable systems as your energy source, what form do you choose and why?

7) If you could travel to any planet in the solar system other than earth which one would it be and why would you want to visit it?


8) You have discovered a skill that will benefit the future of humanity.
What is the skill and would you choose to impart your knowledge?


9) You have discovered an opportunity to make yourself very, very rich financially but at the cost of not being happy… Do you keep your secret to yourself or invite others along for the ride.

10) You recieve notice that you have been chosen out of millions to join with a group of other people to settle and ready a new planet for future human habitation... What qualities, skills or attributes do you posess that you think got you the gig... and would you go?

So there you go ... you can get on with it or not. The choice is yours Dhaaarlings...

Oh.. Look a post without gratuitous nudity....

Well Almost!