Author: Melissa

I had all these listed at the side of this page, but got sick of them taking up valuable screen real estate, so have moved them here. Mainly myspace sites – great way to uncover new musical tastes.

Anna Nalick, Bec Lavelle (does the music from McLeod’s Daughters), Ben Harper, Bob Evans (went to a Brisbane concert recently), Gyan (did a musical rendition of Leunig’s work), Incubus, Janis Ian (her article about music copyright was referenced in a course at uni, led me to her recordings – and I made a donation!), Jason Yates, Jon Stevens (saw him play Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar), Kate Miller-Heidke (a great cover of her song “Apartment” was done by local girls at a concert in Laidley), KT Tunstall, Mahalia Barnes (talented daughter of Jimmy), Nelly Furtado, Priscilla Ahn, Rogue Traders (“Izzy” from neighbours), Sarah Blasko, Schuyler Fisk, Susan Enan.

I didn’t know she could sing! Toni Collette has a beautiful voice. See clip on Youtube.

Adapted from the joke I found on this other blog.

Once, there was a very kind old barber in New York.

One day, a florist goes to him for a haircut. After the cut, he pays the barber but the barber replies “I’m sorry. I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service.” The florist is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, there is a thank you card and a dozen of roses waiting at his door.

A policeman goes for a haircut and he also pays the barber after the cut. But again, the barber replies: “I’m sorry. I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service.” The cop is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning, when the barber opens his shop, there was a thank you card and a dozen of donuts waiting at his door.

A university student goes for a haircut and he also pays the barber. The barber says: “I’m sorry. I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service.” The university student is happy and leaves. The next morning, when the barber goes to open his shop, guess what he finds there:

A dozen university students waiting for a free haircut!

Sasha is taking up to six pills a day for her heart now – Vetmedin and Frudix in the morning, again in the evening plus Fortekor and a heart worm tablet. The vet actually suggested we could stop giving her the heart worm pills, since she doesn’t believe Sash will live long enough for it to ever become a problem 🙁 but H reckons that is just being pessimistic, and as long as it doesn’t harm her to keep taking them, we shall keep giving it to her.

With all these pills it was becoming difficult to get them all down her little throat. The vet suggested crushing them, mixing with honey and smearing around Sasha’s mouth so she would lick it off. That idea didn’t really appeal to us. Then H hit on the brilliant idea to wrap the pills in leftover mashed potato, and it works amazingly well.

Sasha loves it. She used to spit the pills out all the time when we tried to get them down her throat, but now we just offer her the mashed potato ball (with pills inside) and she gobbles it up, no problem!

Luke 7:36-38

This is a compelling story. It appears in the other three Gospels but none portray the scene as powerfully as Luke.

“This scene is one of the great episodes in the Lucan Gospel, for it depicts Jesus not merely defending a sinful woman against the criticism of a Pharisee, but drives home in a special way the relationship between the forgiveness of sins (by God) and the place of human love and the giving of oneself in that process.”

– (From “The Gospel According to Luke” by Joseph Fitzmyer) Fr John Conway