On the Market

It has just come to my attention that there will be an open inspection of the house next door on Saturday.  The asking price for the property is somewhere in the region of...


...seven million Australian dollars, which is quite reasonable considering its location.

Adelaide rarely has earthquakes or cyclones.  It has never experienced a hurricane or a typhoon.  It is infrequently too humid.  It is only occasionally frosty.  The sun is often shining here.  The breezes are mostly moderate.  The rain falls mainly in scattered showers.

Share your own opinions about Adelaide

I shall be very interested to have a look around the house next door.  Its former owners never invited me in for tea, perhaps because they felt their own expressions of hospitality would be rather inadequate when compared with my own.  All of my neighbours have visited my parlour, though very few have had anything particularly interesting to say.

Join a conversation in my parlour

I have decided to sell the rest of my overseas properties, including my apartment in Venice and my private nature reserve on Kangaroo Island.  You may know that I recently made a substantial profit when selling my New York apartment and Parisian townhouse.  I briefly mentioned New York in several of my earlier blog-pamphlet postings:


One  |  Two  |  Three  |  Four  |  Five  |  Six


It appears that some people still believe New York to be a place of some importance.  Is it any more important than Adelaide - or Kangaroo Island?


My first mention of Kangaroo Island

My second mention of Kangaroo Island

My third mention of Kangaroo Island


If you are looking for somewhere to stay in Europe, rather than Australia, you may like to purchase an exquisite piece of cultural and architectural Venetian history.


My first mention of Venice

My second mention of Venice

My third mention of Venice

My fourth mention of Venice



I intend to remain on dry land below Goyder's Line for the foreseeable future.  My work in the informal sector of the global knowledge market is keeping me very well occupied. However, Monsieur Offenbach contacted me yesterday, to complain that I did not mention him in a recent blog-pamphlet posting.  He wonders why I did not include some comments about his operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld.  Perhaps you will be able to advise him as to my reasoning, dear reader.

Monsieur Offenbach is currently working on an English-language version of the operetta, he tells me.  He is calling it Orpheus in the Financial World. He says it will need some economic restructuring before its first performance.

My own priority at present is to turn Australia's very unfair illness market, otherwise known as a health lottery, into a lovely and enlightened health care service. Many readers of this blog-pamphlet, on all continents, are professional health care providers of the highest distinction, rather than the highest salaries.  I aim to provide them with proper assistance, through properly administered - and properly funded - institutions.

Here are just a few of my earlier references to the subject:


Reference One

Reference Two

Reference Three


Well, Monsieur Offenbach has certainly made a very worthwhile contribution to good health care, with the composition and performance of another of his many operettas, namely The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.  I only wish the operetta in question could have had a more positive impact on reducing military budgets, increasing the quality of hospital emergency departments , and shortening the waiting times for operations of elective (or, more accurately, distress-relieving) surgery since its first performance in 1867.


If you would like to see better health care services in your own district, perhaps hum a tune from one of Monsieur Offenbach's operettas when you next see one of your elected representatives.  It may be wise, however, only to sing a barcarole when your social policy concerns have been properly addressed - or when you can afford to buy some property.

Now, I wonder what you think about the two-speed economy in Australia.  Do you believe it is most distasteful that only one part is progressing at the pace of an infernal galop?