For your consideration, here is episode twenty two of "It's a Ponderous Life", the place where I offer you the weekly rantings of a middle aged man trying to come to grips with life, where the wife and kids all have their own lives that don't require me, and I get fist shakingly annoyed at the world as I see it.

For some 34 years, myself and my friend group from high school have participated in an event that we call “The Biannual”, where we try to meet up twice a year and catch up with what everyone is doing in their lives. The importance of the event has changed over those 34 years, in some ways that I never expected.

Today I talk about how it all came to be, and the several stages that it has observed in the time since. The ways that it has operated, and the joy and frustration I have had because of it.

So please join me in my quest to get a few things off my chest, in another episodic enlightenment of “It's a Ponderous Life”, right here on Thoughts from the Metal Cavern.

For your consideration, here is episode twenty one of "It's a Ponderous Life", the place where I offer you the weekly rantings of a middle aged man trying to come to grips with life, where the wife and kids all have their own lives that don't require me, and I get fist shakingly annoyed at the world as I see it.

With the eldest child having once again moved away from home, the wife away on a girls weekend away, and the other two kids either doing their Higher School Certificate or playing cricket, it has been left to me to hold the fort at home, and look after the dog who doesn’t like being alone, but likes it less if I am the only other alternative.

So let’s discuss the upkeep of the house, and how that all goes when the main contributor is away drinking copies bottles of wine rather than doing what she normally does around the house.

On today’s episode I discuss my views on washing of clothes, and the way it should be prepared and sorted. I discuss whether or not ironing has become a thing of the past, about how hard is it really to keep your bedroom clean, and the time frame required to make sure the bathrooms and toilets are actually livable.

So please join me in my quest to get a few things off my chest, in another episodic enlightenment of “It's a Ponderous Life”, right here on Thoughts from the Metal Cavern.

Welcome back to a new episode of the re-titled movie retrospective episodes "Helen & Bill's Excellent Movie Adventures", the episodes of this podcast where Helen and Bill take on the roles vacated by David and Margaret and bring you the reviews that matter... on movies from the past that no doubt you have all seen before.

Today's episode features the five films that were nominated for Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008, all released in 2007. So why not tune in to hear what these two cinefiles think about:

JUNO

ATONEMENT

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

MICHAEL CLAYTON

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

That's the agenda on today's episode of "Helen & Bill's Excellent Movie Adventures", on the podcast where agreeing on anything is a full time commitment, Thoughts from the Metal Cavern.