Everything Mixed Together

Just before the bus pulled away from this bus stop this evening on the way home from work, a couple of Japanese tourists asked the bus driver, in halting English, if the bus was going where they wanted to go.

There was a guy already on the bus who looked Japanese, but from his accent he'd been in Australia most of his life, and didn't know how to speak Japanese.

It made me wonder - how many white guys are there who've spent their entire life in Japan and don't know how to speak English?

In the light of the Elvis Festival in Parkes, NSW, it struck me that the Elvis impersonators are looking decidedly elderly...

Festive photos.

Sometimes it blows me away to find out that someone I'm sure must have died years ago is not only very much alive, but is still hard at it doing the same thing they were doing donkey's years ago. Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's The Sky At Night television programme, seemed old (not to mention as eccentric as the orbit of Pluto) when I was in primary school.

Now in his eighties, he still presents the programme, and has done so every month (bar one) for fifty years. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is quite something.

A flick through his entry in Wikipedia reveals him to be a noted lunar expert, prodigious author, composer, accomplished xylophone player, monocle wearer and member of the Flat Earth Society.

And how many people can claim that they accompanied Albert Einstein on the piano?