Bendigo's Tourism Campaign

I think I have figured out Bendigo's tourism campaign! And it's a very sly one.

Let's face it, there isn't much in Bendigo except for some nice old buildings (but since most towns and cities have these, it's nothing really). So I was baffled when driving through Bendigo and all of the hotels were booked out.

There was nothing happening except a ride on the old talking trams ... actually, I'd pay for an experience on a talking tram if the tram really did talk.

But then it hit me; everyone drives through Bendigo to get to their destinations. They may stop in Bendigo for lunch. But rarely is Bendigo the destination. So what better way to attract potential tourists?

By pretending that Bendigo is the hot spot where everyone is going by displaying "no vacancy" signs.

Then, that way people driving through will think "This must be a nice place to visit. We should stay for a weekend!" And immediately call a hotel and beg for a room.

People are being tricked into thinking that Bendigo is the popular place to go away to ... I guess if this campaign is successful, Bendigo will be the popular place to go away to by default.

A very deviuos tourism campaign, indeeed.

Yogurt

Our entire house has been on a yogurt kick lately. I don't know if it's due to the change in the weather, and the sunshine and (relative) warmth has put us all in the mood for yogurt.

Or maybe this yogurt kick is our bodies way of telling us that we need more dairy in our diets.

But I really don't need to focus on that. All I need to focus on is that yogurt tastes delicious and is healthy, so I don't need to feel guilty about it!

New Trick?

For the last couple of nights I have been hearing a disembodied meowing coming from under the house. Even though I thought it might have all been in my head, I was still running around looking for the damn thing.

Well, actually, just making sure that all of the cats were still inside last night. It was too cold to actually go outside and get under the house. Plus there's the whole spiders under the house factor, which I really have no desire to face. Especially in the middle of the night!

And since all of the cats were inside the house, I had to content myself with the fact that I was either imagining the meowing, or that it was one of the cats being all sneaky and throwing his/her voice.

Except this evening I got confirmation that it was neither of those!

My housemate and I were watching TV and we both heard the meowing. So did one of the cats, and I don't think she's quite that good at throwing her voice.

So there must be a cat under the house!

A cat that only meows when no one else is around.

And only at night.

Maybe it's not a cat under there, after all. Maybe it's Horry and/or Charlotte having another go at haunting the house.

By pretending to be a cat stuck under the house at night.

Although, it did have me running around looking for it last night, and I was half convinced that it was all in my head. So maybe the ghost in question is onto something with this latest haunting scheme.

Very sneaky if it is Horry and/or Charlotte.

Odour Neutralising Dish Washing Liquid

Washing the dishes today, I couldn't help reading the label on the dishwashing liquid. I don't know why I haven't read it before. I have done the dishes plenty of times since this particular bottle was purchased.

But one of Morning Fresh's cleaning wonders is that it neutralises odours.

This might just be me. I don't actually know what others think when it comes to dishes and keeping them clean. But if the dishes still have a smelly odour after I've cleaned them, then I clearly haven't done that great a job cleaning them, because they're still not dirty.

Although, maybe the odour isn't coming from the suspicious pile of dishes that may or may not be clean. Maybe the odour is coming elsewhere from the house. Maybe the power of Morning Fresh's odour neuteraliser is so strong that it completely rids the house of all odours. Even the smell of the dirty kitty litter tray (but that's what the odour neuturalising kitty litter is for).

Then there's the question of why would you do the dishes to get rid of the smell instead of locating and removing the source of the smell;

"Hmmm, something smell kind of very funky. Getting rid of the smell is just too much work, so I'll do the dishes instead. That'll get rid of the bad smell!"

If I had've realised that the dishwashing liquid I was buying contained odour neutralising powers I wouldn't have bought it. I would've brought a brand not Morning Fresh that didn't have stupid claims

But then, the only reason why I bought was because I was just curious as to what Sparkling Fresh smells like (lavender), and if buying a strange new purple product only ends badly if it contains alcohol (yes, it does).

So until Morning Fresh stop making stupid, irrational claims about odour neutralising powers, they can kiss my business goodbye.

September's Good Newsletter

I've only really skimmed through Tara's good newsletter for September, but it sounds like the most helpful newsletter thus far;why it's better to trust in your astrological sign than questioning everything that happens, why it's better to be unemployed, being the master of your dreams and finally who's responsible for the multilation of livestock.

So, according to Tara, my astrological sign can help me solve so many problems, and open doors for me. I'm (like so many people) just aren't taking advantage of my astrological sign and reaping the benifits.

Apparently to reap the benifits of my astrological star sign, I should start embodying the key charactistics if I don't already.

So I basically have to stop being myself and start being fake to be able to take adavantage of my astrological star sign ...

It's always so refreshing to be told to stop being yourself if you want to be successful. Like being yourself is an automatic fail in life.

Ok, so I'm going to admit that when I wrote about it being better to be unemployed earlier, it was before I had read too deeply into this month's newsletter. I really couldn't care less about the woman in Tara's example or how it is actually better to be unemployed than it is to be employed.

But then, I'm not a pyschic, so maybe the mystery of this while forever escape me.

Although, from what I can gather, things seem to work more perfectly when unemployed. I guess that's why unemployed people don't bang on about how great life is when living off the pittance the government hands out to the needy.

After all, if everybody knew about how easy life is when unemployed, everybody would be unemployed instead of being foolish and working.

But this being said, I'm clearly doing the whole unemployed thing wrong; my life isn't all that easy and I can't help but suspecting it would be a lot easier if I were actually employed.

But like I said earlier, I'm no pyschic. So maybe the mystery and truth about this situation is once again escaping me.

I don't think I need to cover lucid dreaming. Either you can do lucid dream or you can't. But lucid dreams aren't as good as the non-lucid dreams. The craziness of normal dreams is just fantastic!

And now I'm onto the topic that has been causing me so much concern; my livestock and what has been mutilating them.

I don't know about you, but I'm despairing about how much my livestock gets mutilated so often. It's just so depressing.

Ok, so I also skimmed through this part of Tara's newsletter. But from what I saw, she doesn't offer any new answers; the mutilation is the work of aliens, extra terrestials or UFO's (which apparently are all completely different). There's nothing about the whole natural thing about natural predators and/or weird weather conditions that make dead bosies appear like they've been mutilated.

Although, it does appear that pyschics believe in aliens ... So I have learned something today.

Demons

So people like to condemn demons to mythology and the fantasies of people who have lost touch with reality.

Even in shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer people who claim to be victims of demons and their ilk are considered crazy. Even Buffy has been admitted to the looney bin.

But really, who's to say that demons only exist in the minds of crazy people and/are religious zealots?

After what I heard tonight, I'm certainly more open to the idea of demons actually existing in our world;

I was outside and I heard a couple of shrieks that sounded more like some kind of call of something living than sirens, which is what these whistling calls sounded like except for the fact that these calls didn't last as long as a single siren blast.

What I heard was definitely not any kind of emergancy siren blast I have ever heard before.

What I heard sounded more other worldly and wrong.

Let's Be Serious

As you're all probably aware, it's cool to blame climate change on man and all of the carbon emissions that our world is emitting. Needless to say that this line of thought is ridiculous and wrong and going to cost us a fortune because the government is trying to do the popular thing by passing the Carbon Tax.

Climate change isn't caused by man and our carbon emissions, people!

What is really the cause behind climate change is witches and their witch craft.

It is a well known fact that witches have altered the weather for their own purposes throughout history. The Church wouldn't lie about something as serious as this. That's why there were all those witch hunts.

And why would witches being doing something as heinous as mess around with the global temperatures, you ask.

Well, it's very simple; witches are pure evil who like to do mean and nasty things just for their own amusement ... and quite possibly because their master, the Devil, told them to.

It's just what witches do.