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Stupid me, I thought it would be easy to buy a small table for our balcony. Just walk around a few shops, check out a few prices, buy one and go home....

Lots of ornate cast iron tables with curlicues and tile or glass tops.... Lots of huge tables that wouldn't fit on the balcony.... Finally a suitable table in a Barbecues Galore store. Now the fun begins.

We've picked the one piece of stock with no price-tag. Mr Minimal-Wage Saturday Casual Staff doesn't know the price. Nobody else in the store knows the price. He rings another store and nobody there seems to know the price. He gets off the phone and quotes us a price. Unfortunately this seems to be a wild guess, he doesn't look comfortable with it, and since its more than a larger table from the same manufacturer in the same store, we treat his guess with the disdain it deserves and leave.

Election day... Bah! After the quality of the electoral campaigning over the last few weeks, I don't think any of the politicians are capable of running a school fete, let alone a country.

MLP

[http://www.vic.greens.org.au/]

Victoria state greens party

[http://www.greens.org.au/]

The national Greens party

[http://www.democrats.org.au/]

Australian Democrats.

[http://www.australianbicyclelobby.com/]

not only one of the longest domain names I've seen, but a coalition of cycle groups raising political issues. Noticably absent is Bicycle Victoria.

[http://www.ross-anderson.com/]

Ross Anderson, author of Security Engineering. Higly recommended reading.