Personal entry

Isn’t the Internet a powerful tool - I have been able to go into immigration archives and find my father’s original entry to Australia, the documents and declaration he completed and a photograph of him.

Dad demobilized from the US Army in 1945 and wound up on a bus to Nebraska…..many years later I joined the dots. Apparently his first wife, according to my aunt (Dad’s sister) did not settle too well in the USA. Dad last saw his sister in San Francisco when he put his wife and daughter ...

The horse startled and Mum was dazed on the ground. She would get on her horse and ride to the end of the road and when out of sight of her mother would get off the horse and walk the horse the rest of the way to school. It was the Great Depression and outside of Queanbeyan was a little mining town, Captains Flat. Mum was kicked by the horse, and many years later the consequences of this accident were realized. Mum loved horses and in particular trotting harness racing, she would not bet but find ...

“Hey soldier come over here and listen to this – the Japs have just bombed Pearl Harbour….”

My Dad was pulling guard duty in Riverside, California just outside Los Angeles when the taxi driver called him over. He joined the National Guard in Reno, Nevada in 1939 and by May 1942 he was camped with the first wave of US Army forces in parkland adjoining Melbourne Zoo. He recalls one of the first nights returning to camp from downtown Melbourne, it was dark as, but the sound of lions ...

The movie “As Good At It Gets” starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt centres on a guy with an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I have presented two clips here and depending on how you see a glass as either half full or half empty, each clip presents the lead character in various states


Self Centred:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32cil3p55z4


Recognising false logic, and moving on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5A6HIaqzxM

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Hello this is BuckBuck#1 and for those of you that may be familiar with OCPD, I trust in the weeks and months ahead that you may find an interest and insight to my condition and my journey since I commenced riding in 2006. For those of you that may not be aware of OCPD, then perhaps in time you may want to either read on or click the mouse and move to another section in this Kiwibiker website.

For those of you that were around in 2006/8 some of you may remember the Newbie Training ...