LANELESS WORLD DRIVE

What are you on about, you may ask. A trilogy? You may even scoff at the very notion. It's a loose connection, I will admit, and really only applies to this blog. The last two entries,  Fractured Allegiance and  Australia contain these two photographs. Both were a response by myself toward the attitude of the Fresh Food People toward Australia Day. Or more correctly, the upper brass who are in thrall to special interest groups who they consult and hand over their backbone in order to appear more inclusive, while alienating the majority. Something must have happened as a result of all this hoo-hah, with Woolworths going into damage control as the South African born CEO, Bradford Banducci, appeared on various programmes as well as taking out full page newspaper ads. I'm not saying business has been affected because of all this carry on, but the latest Woolworths catalogue has dropped, chock-full of mentions of Australia Day, so it seems to me they're running scared. HAPPY A

Phar Lap and Jim Pike Happy 236th to the greatest country in the world. If you have a predilection for moaning about how ashamed you are about living here, then kindly remove yourself and begone. Out of the kindness of my heart, I'll even make myself available to point you in the direction of the Indian Ocean, if need be, as well as chip in to cover the cost of a pair of floaties in the event of somebody starting a GoFundMe. Long live Australia Day.

announcing the return of this blog on a strictly intermittent basis -  next entry: tomorrow, the entry after that: 2027 or maybe 2039 or possibly a day or two before the week after next