Comments on: My Name is Brian and I’m not Paranoid

By: BE

BE — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:02:47 +0000

Man, really, really interesting reading about all this theological stuff. Hey, for a real buzz, can we move on to Jewish liturgical rites, straight after this?

Sorry, Merv. too controversial. But I might consider something on the influence of Soren Kierkegaard on Franz Kafka with special reference to Abraham and the burning bush. Whadya think?

By: Merv

Merv — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:27:17 +0000

Man, really, really interesting reading about all this theological stuff.
Hey, for a real buzz, can we move on to Jewish liturgical rites, straight after this?

By: BE

BE — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:05:29 +0000

No need to backtrack, Sylvie, my sweet. A bit of mirth and irreverence, is just what the good “doctor” prescribes for his blog.

Correct.

By: BE

BE — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:04:45 +0000

Oh dear, re-reading my comment I realise I might have just made a prat of myself. It doesn’t sound light-hearted or humorous as it was intended!!

Relax, Sylvie, I wasn’t at all offended by your comment.

By: BE

BE — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:03:21 +0000

I’m now one of those “…professional gardeners who make a more-than-decent living…” that you refer to.

My complaint wasn’t about people being employed to do gardens. If I had the money to do it, I’d probably employ someone myself. My piece was about noise. Let me give you a small example. There are several very long drives quite close to our home. On a regular basis, about once a week, “gardeners” remove every leaf and every speck of dust from these drives by ambling from the bottom to the top with a leaf blower. The ‘journey’ takes about an hour. So that’s two hours a week of leaf-blowing and we’re only talking about two drives. My question is: is it really necessary to keep a drive as clean as an operating room floor; and, if it is, have any of these gardeners heard of a rake?

By: River Howe

River Howe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:03:03 +0000

After reading all your posts it reminds me why I left the city and retreated into the mountains above Golden Bay, where all day long the only sounds are cicadas, birds and the occasional sheep. If only we could equip the possums with slippers instead of hob nailed boots we’d sleep easier! lol

By: Top Bloke

Top Bloke — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:48:29 +0000

Eric –
My point was directed at the so-called “time-poor”
A euphemism much like “Quality time”
eg. “I’m so busy I only spend an hour with my kids each night – but it is quality time”

By: Eric Drake

Eric Drake — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:28:13 +0000

“My view is that if you can’t look after it then you don’t deserve it. Be it gardens, children, pets or houses”.

Right on, Top Bloke. Whether you’re aged & infirmed, crippled, sick, elderly, blind, deaf and dumb, overseas on a long holiday — it shouldn’t make a bit of diiference. Just get off your fat, lazy arse and do it yourself.

By: Merv

Merv — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:11:58 +0000

Oh, man! After reading PhilBee’s heart-rending and punishing travails, you just gotta feel for him.

And, there just has to be a salutatory lesson for Brian: Next time, while slaving away in the kitchen (preparing his famed tomato-and-lettuce sammies), and he hears the toiling sounds from a neighbour’s garden, be sure to make a few extra. I’m betting, they will be received with all the solicitous grace, that the gardener can muster.

By: Top Bloke

Top Bloke — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:08:25 +0000

Lazy people, Lazy minds , Lazy attitudes, the scourge of our society, people who are so “time poor” they cant possibly do their own garden. My view is that if you can’t look after it then you don’t deserve it. Be it gardens, children, pets or houses.