A man watching a football game on TV kept switching channels to an adult movie featuring a lusty couple.

“I don’t know whether to watch them or the game,” he said to his wife.

“For heavens sake, watch them,”  his wife said.

“You already know how to play football.”

Every year for the past 10 years, 5 friends and myself have taken on a least one long distance walk or National Trail. In this time we have completed The Coast to Coast, The West Highland Way, The Southern Upland Way (Scotland’s Coast to Coast), The Rob Roy Way, Offa’s Dyke, The Arran Coastal Way and two thirds of the Pennine Way.

During the first week of the Southern Upland Way in 2004, we met up with Frank, a Canadian guy who is a retired teacher and although born in Scotland emigrated to Canada with his family at an early age. The following year he flew over and joined us on week two of the walk and has continued to join us every year since.

I think the Aussies could teach our mob a thing or two about political spin, how about this!

Judy Rudd an amateur genealogy researcher in Southern Queensland was doing some work on her family tree. She discovered that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s great-great uncle, Remus Rudd was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Melbourne in 1889. Both Judy and Kevin Rudd share this common ancestor.

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows at Melbourne Gaol.

So recently Judy emailed Prime Minister Rudd for information about their great-great uncle, Remus Rudd.