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2 August, 2019
My Menu
An index to a series of short notes about events and observations in my life from the late 1990s on. Note that there is now an updated and expanded edition of this file under the heading, Home page supplement
By John Ray
From the beginning, Australia has always been modern and up to date
Australians only have six commandments
Some history of the Peignoir
The Sydney Baroque music club
Beating the Bureaucrats
Burns night
Cake tins and poverty
Carpet and I
Chaucer, England's greatest narrative poet
Springboard to a new lifestyle
I know the poor
Amazing case: Single mother sues slimy cop -- and wins
Lessons from a robbery
When the (Rock) band stopped playing
I knew taxdodger Peter Clyne in the 70s
My history with locks
Why I am a libertarian conservative
The importance of a common culture
A Sydney floral garden
Dutchmen and electricians
My early politics
A Classical Education
Why I was once fired from a State government bureaucracy
Savings (frugality) is the key to having money when you need it
The Geneva Bible
My "Gifts"
Griffo's "Pik a hot Pak", the ultimate toasted sandwich
The mother and father of a hailstorm -- 2014
In praise of Czech composer Leos Janacek
In the Army
Recognition for a fine man: Paul Brandon, bootmaker
Why I like the "thirty-nine articles of religion"
I am a bad churchman
Gregorian chant at Our Lady of Protection Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church
Celebrating the feast of Christ the King at "Our Lady of Victories" Polish Catholic church
Innisfail, where I was born
Innisfail State Rural School
Dr Cotter, the local doctor during my childhood in Innisfail
My Scottish connections
A brief personal memoir of Scotland
When a model and a single mother defeated the police in court -- and got a big payout for police misdbehaviour
Cars in my life
I own a Tardis, A Tardis car to be precise: My 1997 Toyota Starlet.
A 1963 Humber Super Snipe (Series IV)
My ancestry
A small memorial to "Bluey" Ray, my father
The first "Frank" Ray, my great grandfather
My great, great grandfather's pardon
My brother gets noticed by the ABC
Did my brother grow up in a drain?
My gorgeous sister, Roxanne (Mrs Smith)
My recollections of Harry Beanham
Apologia pro vita sua
An autobiography
The actual dates (in order) of some major events in my life. A minimalist biography
A curriculum vitae from 1975
My vacation in far north queensland (August 2004)
My 63rd Birthday bash at "A Night in India"
My 70th
My 75th
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