Meet the galah that was hanging around our house last week.

The silly thing would not leave. For a few days it hung around on our car, our fences, our roof, the clothesline and even spent an hour or two pecking the life out of the flywire on the front door!!

After speaking the the shire ranger, then CALM and then finally the pet shop, Linda managed to catch it and take it to the pet shop. Given how tame it was, I would imagine it was an escaped pet rather than wild.

Against my better judgement, I have joined Facebook and you can [find me here][1]. To be honest, I finally joined when I found out two friends were already on there and I wouldn’t be stuck there with *no friends*. I have had an Orkut account for years with nothing to show for it and my eyes bleed whenever I look at Myspace. Consider this a compromise.

[1]: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=790699567

Look at the comments I have to put up with from some of the young women that I work with at the pharmacy.

*”Led Zeppelin, Who are they?”*

*”Who’s Captain Kirk?”*

*”What’s a TARDIS?”*

*Blank Look*, when I said “Hope I die before I get old”

As unfortunate as all of the above are, a sign of what I call *Cultural Illiteracy*, they are nothing compared to this:

*”Julius Caesar, isn’t he an actor?”*

AARGH! Western Culture is (by definition) that which traces its routes to Rome. Given that Julius is (as I heard him described recently) “the most famous Roman”, what hope do we have when these (near to) 20 year olds, recently finished school, **haven’t even heard of him!!**