Blog pub meet-up tonight

Thanks to Justin, I’ll be meeting a few bloggers from 6-8 PM tonight at
The Nag’s Head pub (162 St John’s Road, Glebe.)
You’re welcome to come!

For he’s gone to marry Yum-Yum?

Over at Craig’s blog, my pity was struck by a certain (the third thus) anonymous poster’s plaintive cry in this thread (entry #20 therein) as follows:
Anonymous said:
I am an “older” single woman in my 30s. I always expected to get married and wanted 3 or 4 children. But no one has ever asked me to [...]

The Culture of Affluence: Psychological Costs of Material Wealth

“The Culture of Affluence: Psychological Costs of Material Wealth” / Suniya S. Luthar
Abstract:
Children of affluence are generally presumed to be at low risk. However, recent studies have suggested problems in several domains—notably, substance use, anxiety, and depression—and 2 sets of potential causes: pressures to achieve and isolation from parents. Recognizing the limited awareness of these [...]

Blog title

While I’m still into G&S, I don’t reckon this blog quite lives up to Gilbert’s line. Hence, I might as well change the title of this blog shortly following this post. Then again, I might not. We’ll see…
I remain, as ever,In Your Humble and Obedient Service:Michael Thomas Augustine Canaris.

What a load of tosh!

For a lark, someone whose name escapes me convinced me to dabble in one of those “Personality profiling” online tests which have as their supposed rationale the facilitation of matchmaking.
While the company which produced said test shall remain nameless, their “results” came to my email last night. Note to marketers of such services: if [...]

Confessions of the day

Due to my gluttony, I went to McDonald’s a couple of times today in pursuit of their pancakes (which are now available all day long at some outlets.)
Whilst in the queue there this evening, I observed some excessive giggling emerging from outside McDonald’s. As time went by, this giggling increased in volume and [...]

Writer’s block

While I’ve been suffering from Writer’s block lately, I have a foggy notion that I ought to post here more frequently.
Anyway, of late I’ve been perusing the blogs respectively of
John J Reilly
Byron Smith
Brian Douglas
Michael P Jensen
*”Archbishop Cranmer”*
Roger Scruton; and
Rev Sam, amongst others.
I also post on Ian Montgomery’s Alternate History fora, the SydneyAnglicans.net fora [...]

Best wishes

For a combined Christmas/birthday present, I recently received a wonderfully gold-plated edition of all the Savoy libretti.
Here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed your holidays.
I remain, as ever,
In Your Humble and Obedient Service:
Michael Thomas Augustine Canaris.

Cocktails

Attended NSWRTLA annual dinner/conference tonight. Heard a few interesting narrative accounts there.
As yet, I’m unsure as to the balance of conversation which emerged.
I remain, as ever,In Your Humble and Obedient Service:Michael Thomas Augustine Canaris.

Aim

The primary purpose of this blog shall be to post miscellaneous notions, quotes and libretti of my and the late Sir W.S. Gilbert’s perspectives.
I remain, as ever,
Your Humble and Obedient Servant:
Michael Canaris.