Monthly Archives: March 2016

Blog stats first quarter 2016

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The years do go faster as you get older! In March this blog has averaged 43 visits a day, up from last month. Now two sets of stats:

Top Posts for 31 days ending 2016-03-31

  1. Home page / Archives 749 views
  2. Ziggy’s House of Nomms 32
  3. They can’t POSSIBLY elect T. Rump, can they? 32
  4. Outnumbered, Merlin, and other recently seen TV 28
  5. All my posts 22
  6. Linda Jaivin on Hou Dejian 18
  7. Fairfax woes and a bit more on T Rump 18
  8. Random Friday memory: 1 – John Mystery, my brother, Illawong 18
  9. Tom Thumb Lagoon 17
  10. The swimmer 15
  11. Remembering my mother on my sister’s birthday 12
  12. Hey hang on! That has to be nonsense… 10

Top Posts for 90 days ending 2016-03-31

  1. Home page / Archives 2,055 views
  2. Ziggy’s House of Nomms 137
  3. All my posts 79
  4. Outnumbered, Merlin, and other recently seen TV 53
  5. Random Friday memory: 1 – John Mystery, my brother, Illawong 44
  6. Tom Thumb Lagoon 43
  7. They can’t POSSIBLY elect T. Rump, can they? 32
  8. The swimmer 32
  9. Some great stories, and some of them new to me… 26
  10. About 23
  11. Random Friday memory 17 – Caringbah 1965 23
  12. Hey hang on! That has to be nonsense… 23
  13. Reclaiming Australia Persian-style in Wollongong 22
  14. What a treasury of family history! 21
  15. Family history–some news on the Whitfield front 20

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Wild cockatoos at “The Bates Motel” West Wollongong

TV series “My Place”, M, and a blog glitch yesterday

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Did you see My Place (2009-2011)? Very good children’s TV. There is a teacher companion site.

On this website you will find rich educational material to support primary and lower-secondary teachers using the My Place TV series in the classroom. Explore background information, aligned with the My Place stories, on events and people significant to Australia’s history. Download clips and stills from the TV series, as well as teaching activities and student activity sheets that relate to current themes. Go behind the scenes with production information and interviews, or chat with other teachers and share stories in the teacher’s forum.

Imagine my surprise when I found my friend M, the one I mentioned in the Linda Jaivin post a few days ago, is in there!

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See Celebrating citizenship, Sydney, 1997. A great William Yang photo – and I was of course at that party.

This asset reflects the enthusiasm with which many migrants embraced Australia, seeing it as their new land of opportunity – Australian citizenship was created on 26 January 1949 by the ‘Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948’ (later renamed the ‘Australian Citizenship Act 1948’); since 1949 more than 3 million migrants have become Australian citizens, with over 70,000 joining them every year; the granting of Australian citizenship to an individual requires certain commitments both from Australia and from the citizen and gives the person rights and responsibilities; not all migrants become citizens, with more than 900,000 opting instead to remain as ‘permanent residents’; ‘Citizenship Ceremonies’ are held across Australia, often hosted by local government councils in a town hall or another building of significance.

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My Place

Yesterday something very peculiar happened to this blog, and later to Neil’s final decade too:

Shock! God knows why!

neilcommonplacebook.wordpress.com is no longer available.

This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service.
For more information and to contact us please read the message in your dashboard

WordPress was quite fast in dealing with the issue once I let them know. (Thanks, Leroy.)

One of your sites… was mistakenly flagged by our automated anti-spam controls. As a result, your account was prevented from registering new sites. We have reviewed your site and have removed the suspension…

We greatly apologize for this error and the inconvenience it caused.

The glitch only lasted for an hour or so. 

Miscellaneous and health issue

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I have added substantially to Linda Jaivin on Hou Dejian. Thanks kvd for highlighting the possible contradiction in the first version of that post.

Yesterday I took a problem that has been bothering me for a week at least to the doctor. A skin tag on my neck had been bleeding and was a nasty colour. It also stung. So the doc told me it was dying and he cut it out, sending the result for biopsy.

Skin tags are generally fairly harmless and quite friendly. Except for the cosmetic appearance, they essentially cause no physical pain or discomfort. These tiny skin growths generally cause symptoms when they are repeatedly irritated as, for example, by the collar or in the groin. Cosmetic removal for unsightly appearance is perhaps the most common reason they are removed. Occasionally, a tag may require removal because it has become irritated and red from bleeding (hemorrhage) or black from twisting and dying of the skin tissue (necrosis). Sometimes they may become snagged by clothing, jewelry, pets, or seatbelts, causing pain or discomfort. Overall these are very benign growths that have no cancer (malignant) potential.

So hopefully all is now well.

Finally, I used to have a blog on Blogspot. I stopped using it in December 2009, though there was one post in April 2010. Most of its content has been hoovered into my WordPress blogs. One example:

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Resting

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Belmore Park, Sydney