For the information of overseas readers, 25 April 2012 is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, the national day of remembrance.   ...

  Australians in captured Turkish trenches at Lone Pine,Gallipoli, 6 August 1915. A few weeks ago Sue enquired as to the origi...

  My daughter, Acacia, has redesigned the Bytes blog layout, feeling that it was in need of an overhaul. Thanks, Acacia, well done. ...

  How the world was created. “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fai...

To all you Les Mis fans, especially Nadia: Filming of the Les Mis musical, starring Hugh Jackman (Valjean), Russell Crowe (Javert), An...

  Herman Gőring’s Vermeeer:   At the end of World War 2, the Dutch Field Security began hunting down the Dutch citizens who had coll...

  (Caution: risqué item follows) By way of introduction to the first Funny Friday item, which is an oldie but a goodie, I will menti...

  Two of the most prestigious photographic awards are the annual Pulitzer Prize for Photography, begun in 1942, and the World Press Photog...

  There was no Bytes yesterday, my computer picked up some sort of virus that not only stopped me receiving or sending emails, it also pre...

  Last week I posted an old joke about Prince Charles and the fox hat.     It brought to mind that many years ago I came across the “Silly...

  “Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.”   ~ Alfred A. Montapert The above q...

     The Titanic sank 100 years ago today, on 15 April 1912.   Of the 2,223 passengers on the Titanic, only 706 survived, leaving 1,517 dead...

Yesterday I added a late item to the Funny Friday jokes but it was posted too late to catch the emails sent to subscribers.  Here it is, fo...

  James Anthony Mulvihill (1919-2000) (above), commonly known as Tony Mulvihill, was a popular Australian politician.   Between the years ...

  Today, some politically incorrect Italian humour . . . A bus stops and two Italian men get on. They sit down and engage in an anima...

  Recently I was speaking with a friend and client who has been resident in the US for quite a few years.   On a visit to Oz, she was follo...