iWiccle Site News

John: Pictures / Luke at work 2

2010-07-22T18:39:19+10:00

John: Pictures / Luke at work 1

2010-07-22T18:35:49+10:00

Rob: Pictures / luke

2010-07-01T17:17:18+10:00

Rob: Pictures / luke2

2010-07-01T17:06:09+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Cool hand Luke!

2010-07-01T16:51:16+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Luke at the Goldengate bridge

2010-07-01T16:50:05+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Luke in Disneyland

2010-07-01T16:48:49+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Luke dancing with Jess at his deb

2010-07-01T16:47:42+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Luke and Amanda

2010-07-01T16:46:35+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Luke on the day of his Deb.

2010-07-01T16:39:27+10:00

Rob: Pictures / The desert look

2010-07-01T16:37:49+10:00

Rob: Pictures / What the hell, Dad?

2010-07-01T16:36:02+10:00

Rob: Pictures / before shots of front garden

2010-07-01T16:35:03+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Before we killed the front garden

2010-07-01T16:32:28+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Luke at Volleyball

2010-07-01T16:29:22+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Jess and Daniel's band

2010-07-01T16:27:19+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Luke and Lisa before Luke left for America and Canada

2010-07-01T16:18:58+10:00

Rob: Pictures / Final assembly at Billanook College

2010-07-01T16:13:40+10:00

John: Articles / News headlines around the country.

2010-06-24T14:52:33+10:00

There's so much making news in Australia today - our old PM ousted by his own party, a new PM, our first female PM, the Socceroos departing the World Cup despite today's win... there's no shortage of news headlines today.

So I was more than a little amused when I looked-up the various headlines from each state... have a look at the image below - see what tops the headlines in Perth!

John: Articles / Men shoot each other 'to see if it hurts'

2010-06-23T18:23:17+10:00

This from today's news.com.au website:

TWO Victorian men required surgery to remove slug pellets from their backsides after playfully shooting each other with an air rifle to see whether it would hurt.

The 34-year-old mates were enjoying a Sunday afternoon beer drinking session when they decided to shoot one another with an air rifle to see whether it would penetrate their skin or cause pain, Victoria Police said.

The men, from the Grampians region in Victoria's west, took it in turns to shoot each other in the backside and the leg about 5.30pm (AEST) on Sunday.

They thought they were fine but were admitted to hospital two days later requiring surgery to remove slug pellets from their rear ends and legs, police said.

The men will be interviewed by police at a later date when their medical condition improves, police said.

One man will have his firearm licence withdrawn and his firearms confiscated after the incident.

John: Videos / Gilbert Becaud - A Little Love and Understanding

2010-05-21T17:56:02+10:00

Another 'oldie but goodie' - posted on the old site but (I think) worth re-posting on this one.

John: Videos / Nusrat fateh ali Khan & Eddie Vedder - The Long Road

2010-05-21T17:37:15+10:00

This was on the old site. So as not to lose it, I'm putting it on this site. This song is both mystical and magical. Eastern and Western music combined to produce something special.

John: Videos / DJ Earworm - Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits

2010-05-19T17:30:37+10:00

Clever compilation of the hits of 2009.

Rob: Videos / indian girl singing

2010-05-13T18:26:06+10:00

Freddie Mercury - eat your heart out! You have competition...

John: Videos / Joan Baez - Forever Young

2010-05-05T18:22:09+10:00

For all you 'older' dudes - remember Joan Baez? (Of course you do, we all do!). She's looking a little older these days but still beautiful and talented - an old Bob Dylan song, brilliant!

John: Articles / Another Sacred Site?

2010-04-22T19:43:16+10:00

This from today's news:

Potential buyers gather for house auction
Aboriginal group says it's a sacred site
Auctioneer furious, sale in limbo

IT started like any regular auction of a Sydney house in need of an update. It ended barely 30 minutes later in chaos.

A group of Aboriginal men and women turned up in a minibus and handed out documents to startled potential bidders claiming that the property could be a sacred indigenous heritage site.

All of this over a Sydney property the agent admits is about as far from a palace as it gets.

At the centre of one of the most bizarre auctions in memory - 12 days ago - was former Balmain, Gold Coast and South Sydney rugby league star Wes Patten.

Patten lodged a caveat on the Sans Souci property a day before the auction, claiming it contains potentially priceless Aboriginal artefacts.

The sale is now in limbo after the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council sent letters backing Patten's claims.

And More BS:

In one letter, the council's CEO Paul Morris said the site has "possible evidence of significant Aboriginal midden" at the back of the property.

The council says it has found "a number of older shells and other possible remnants of sharpened rocks which could be spear tips".

The letter asked a "buffer zone of at least 30m" be installed around the potential artefacts. Patten's caveat claimed that he had an "equitable interest" in the property under the "Aboriginal objects" provisions of the National Parks and Wildlife Act.

Patten, a first cousin of Anthony Mundine, spoke up in front of those gathered for the auction.

"I just wanted to inform the people about the site's Aboriginal significance," he said.

His claim was lodged for the Gadigal people, who occupied much of southern Sydney.

Patten said there could be Gadigal artefacts in other backyards around Botany Bay. "It's near the waters and it's near the settlement where Captain Cook invaded our land," he said.

Auctioneer Zac Imisides, the principal of Belgrave Properties, was furious with the actions of Patten and his group.

"I believe a fair auction was obstructed. There's no way a bidder would have felt comfortable to bid on that day," he said.

Patten claimed he simply wanted to have the house's Aboriginal heritage status examined before the property was sold. He said he would have no problem with the sale of the house ultimately proceeding, "as long as they protect the artefacts".

The claimed midden site is at the rear of the land under a lemon tree.

Mr Imisides said he believed the property was worth in excess of $700,000 but it had attracted just two bids of $150,000 and $200,000, with the first from Patten's group.

The auctioneer said these bids were "ridiculous".

A group of other bidders, who he believes were willing to pay full market value, were "scared off".

Mr Imisides said the sale was now in limbo. The beneficial owner of the property, Perpetual Trustees, was keen to resume the sales process but would seek clarification on the Aboriginal heritage.

John: Videos / Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Syd Barrett Tribute)

2010-04-17T18:22:36+10:00

Some stuff is timeless - in this case it's both the song and the group.

John: Videos / Katie Melua - The Closest Thing To Crazy

2010-04-17T17:54:41+10:00

Katie Melua is one talented young lady - here she is performing live - The Closest Thing to Crazy.

Micheal: Pictures / Danny and Sharon McGaffin

2010-04-10T20:37:26+10:00

Danny and Sharon McGaffin, ( Mary and Hugh's Children)

John: Videos / Lin Yu Chun - I Will Always Love You

2010-04-08T17:06:11+10:00

From a Taiwanese talent show - this kid does Whitney better than Whitney's been doing herself lately!

John: Videos / Lion King - Circle of Life

2010-04-03T19:20:15+11:00

If you've never watched The Lion King you've missed a great movie. This music is from the movie.

John: Videos / George Michael - Father Figure

2010-04-03T19:05:40+11:00

Great music, great artist.

John: Articles / What's in a Name?

2010-03-31T13:42:20+11:00

Check the article heading below, then check the journalist's name. Very unfortunate!

Heather Boxall: Pictures / Sarah and Stuart Wedding 4 October 2009

2010-03-21T15:27:35+11:00

Heather Boxall: Pictures / Sarah and Stuart Wedding 4 October 2009

2010-03-21T15:25:10+11:00

Sunset at City Beach, Erryn helping Sarah

Heather Boxall: Pictures / Sarah and Stuart Wedding 4 October 2009

2010-03-21T15:22:39+11:00

Sarah and bridesmaids, Erryn closest one

Heather Boxall: Pictures / Sarah and Stuart Wedding 4 October 2009

2010-03-21T15:18:56+11:00

Exchanging rings on balcony of Floreat Surf Club

Heather Boxall: Pictures / Sarah and Stuart Wedding 4 October 2009

2010-03-21T15:14:02+11:00

Heather Boxall: Pictures / Sarah and Stuart Wedding

2010-03-21T15:09:26+11:00

Just before sunset on rocks at City Beach - Perth

Heather Boxall: Pictures / Sarah and Stuart Wedding

2010-03-21T15:05:26+11:00

John: Articles / One just has to laugh, hasn't one?

2010-03-20T19:14:33+11:00

The Brits love to hate him for his 'gaffes'. They feel he's an embarassment to the Royalty. The rest of the world find him amusing, a bit of a twit mixed with a bit of a comic.

Last week, the Duke (Prince Philip) was inspecting young cadets for the British Navy in Exeter when he asked one girl (Elizabeth Rendle) where she worked.

Rendle, who works as a bartender in a nightclub, recounted to The Daily Mail: "I told him I worked in a nightclub - he asked "Is it a strip club?" Then he said "I guess it's too cold!"

Here's a few more 'gaffes' from Phil:

At a Washington Embassy reception for Commonwealth members -
Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps.

Addressing mainly female audience at Scottish Rural Women's Institute Display -
British women can't cook. They are very good at decorating food and making it attractive. But they have an inability to cook.

To Australian Aborigines, during a visit to Queensland -

Do you still throw spears at each other?

During a Royal Jubilee tour -
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate how much more aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

In a speech -
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

To a group of deaf children standing next to Jamaican steel drum band -
Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.

When meeting the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional robes -

You look like you’re ready for bed.

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Response when asked how he dealt with public appearances -
Never pass up the chance to go to the loo or take a poo.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practiced for a good many years.

To a Scottish driving instructor -
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test.

I can only assume that it is largely due to the accumulation of toasts to my health over the years that I am still enjoying a fairly satisfactory state of health and have reached such an unexpectedly great age.

If it has got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

Commenting on Beijing, China, during an official visit there -

Ghastly!

Amid calls to ban firearms after the massacre of 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland -

If a cricketer, for example, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?

At the height of the recession in 1981 -

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

To British students in China during Royal visit there -
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

Pointing at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a tour of a factory near Edinburgh -
It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.

To an islander in the Cayman Islands -
Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

To students who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea -
You managed not to get eaten, then.

In San Francisco on meeting five female city officials -
Aren't there any male supervisors? This is a nanny city.

On Canada -
We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

To a Briton residing in Hungary -
You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a potbelly.

Congratulating a school band on their performance in Australia -
You were playing your instruments weren't you? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

In the Sudan, after viewing some of the paintings housed in the country's ethnic museum -

If you gave a seven-year-old a brush and paints he'd produce something like that.

In room full of press agents, commenting on Russians
The bastards murdered half my family.

To singer Tom Jones -
What do you gargle with - pebbles?

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

Said to a blind woman with a guide dog.
Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

We (The Royal Family) live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

Gentlemen, I think it is about time we 'pulled our fingers out' … If we want to be more prosperous we're simply got to get down to it and work for it. The rest of the world does not owe us a living.

Commenting on stress counselling for servicemen -
It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'are you all right - are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?'. You just got on with it.

To Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator -
It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people.

The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it.

In Kenya, after accepting a gift from an indigenous woman -
You are a woman, aren't you?

John: Videos / Edgar Cruz - Bohemian Rhapsody

2010-03-19T17:03:46+11:00

Edgar Cruz - Bohemian Rhapsody (live).

There's something about 'real' talent which I absolutely love!!

John: Videos / Sungha Jung - Blackbird

2010-03-19T16:38:25+11:00

His name is Sungha Jung. He's 9 years old here and the guitar's bigger than he is...

If you think he's a 'one-song-wonder', search YouTube for Sungha Jung.

PS: this has obviously been recorded on a home recording system, try turning the YouTube clip volume down and your computer volume up.

John: Blogs / Life isn't that complex. Really.

2010-03-18T19:52:41+11:00

Conrad and his buddy Joshua (Josh) were playing in the next room.

I wasn't eavesdropping, I was just close enough to hear the conversation:

Conrad: "Josh, I said to you not to press the 'O'...

Josh: "Sorry, what is the 'O' again?"

Conrad: "Josh, Josh, Josh... how many times do I have to say it?"

Josh: "Sorry, I keep forgetting... and DON'T triple-Josh me!"

Conrad: " I DIDN'T triple-Josh you!"

Josh: "You did too... I heard you."

Conrad: "OK... sorry... I meant to double-Josh you."

Josh: "That's Ok then.. what's the 'triangle' button do?"

And so the conversation went on...

I can't help thinking - when did we all lose that simplicity? That innocence which says that "it's not THAT complex" - a couple of words is all it needs?

How sad that we lost all it by 'growing-up'.

John: Pictures / Adhiraj and Pritha's wedding

2010-03-18T17:45:53+11:00

Let's see if I get this right:

Somraj (extreme left and slightly out of frame), Christine, Lorina, Shelci (in front), Pritha, Noreen, Ronald (Junior) at the back, Adhiraj and Dhruba.

Thanks to Rob.

John: Pictures / Adhiraj and Pritha's wedding

2010-03-18T17:41:00+11:00

Let's see if I get this right:

Shelci (side to camera), Noreen, Christine (as Rob pointed out - looking just like her cousin Charmaine), Anjana and Lorina (talking).

Thanks to Rob.

John: Articles / Melbourne Hailstorm

2010-03-18T14:38:36+11:00

This sort of weather's usually reserved for Sydney, not Melbourne.

Sent in by Rob:

John: Videos / Andrea Bocelli - Jurame

2010-03-13T20:49:39+11:00

Great music now and great music always - Andrea Bocelli - Jurami (complete me).

John: Videos / Les Fat - Vindaloo

2010-03-13T19:45:20+11:00

What more can one say, the artist is Les Fat, the song is Vindaloo - doesn't that say enough?

John: Videos / Animator vs. Animation

2010-03-13T19:36:40+11:00

Interesting and fascinating animation. Are some people just smart or do they have too much time on their hands?