..it couldn’t win under the old coach and team it wasn’t going to let anyone win. Previous captains, victims of a diverse inflictions ranging from a herniated cerebellum to trench mouth, gave their unwanted and irrelevant opinions. Books written by previous chairman’s wives that were fulsome in the praise of their husband’s genius in winning…
.. (with zero response) that we would like a comprehensive soundcheck starting earlier than usual and to that end we were on the point of leaving for the venue in the van and FIFO hire car when I suddenly remembered that I’d left my custom-made ear plugs in the room. I darted out of the…
.. I thought, the best. Perhaps this is the fate of all wines being tasted last in a line-up. For those interested it was a Chateau Decru-Beaucaillou – which you have never heard of – and I hadn’t either until then. Whilst you could probably get it now for less than I paid for it…
..Wall. (Check out the wall on my Facebook page) David Langsam commented that ‘..the Palace has the potential to be a good venue, but the wrestling and golf and rotating sports on big screens is a terrible distraction.’ Ron Mahony, a fellow Cantabrian musician responded with, ‘Hell – we used to play with both the…
.. plumbing and television, but maybe this New Year it’s time for a revision of my list. As I was driving back to Curtin from Fyshwick last Thursday evening, having successfully bought some deck oil as instructed from the Fyshwick Bunnings, I was thinking about how much easier it is to get around Canberra these…
Which, having a reasonably good visual memory, is what I remember most. However this is an ability that serves you absolutely no good at all in a blind tasting. I lack the ability to taste a glass of wine and confidently say that it was a 2002 Domaine Leroy Latricieres-Chambertin Grand Cru just because that…
..subject to the fashions of the day and it’s only the occasional performer who manages to transcend fashion. Dutch’s pithy advice to Geoff Achison to ‘play what you know’ is all you really need to know, but Dutch’s bigger-than-life personality surely played a part in his becoming the quintessential expression of Aussie blues. It’s a…
Anthems are sung – New Zealand gets three verses one in Maori and two in English to Australia’s single chorus. Hymns are sung with embarrassed and tremulous Australian accents. The service, my first for about 60 years, is lead without apparent irony by a Vietnamese minister; there is a moving address in a Scottish accent,…
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..bodies from work place accidents, car accidents etc. putting viewers off their late night snacks and giving their children nightmares for weeks. Drink-driving is one issue that could do with some positivity in its treatment. While I tend to agree that some cultural revision of young people’s attitude to drinking in this country is overdue,…
..furniture that some lad from East Cheam paid thousands of dollars for was actually knocked up out of an old Ikea wardrobe by a disreputable Chinese merchant two years ago. My own humble opinion is that the reason for Antiques Roadshow’s success is not the thrill of the antique but the satisfaction of participating in…
..projected was the be all and end all of their personalities, and never imagined there was another dimension to their lives, let alone that they might exhibit a subtly, or even radically different persona in that other dimension. The only exception was my housemaster at College, one Mr Jim (or was it John?) Pine, whom…
..countries, which makes it more anodyne and less interesting. Low scores and fans with attention deficit disorder don’t help the cause either American Gridiron has the maniacal belief in logistics and tactical overkill that characterises American diplomacy or warfare. Multiple specialist teams composed of specially bred enormous and largely expendable grunts clad in full body…
.. from the ‘New York Post’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’, he runs controls six community newspaper groups. Internationally he controls Dow Jones, ‘Barron’s’ and ‘The Far Eastern Review’ amongst other news organisations and enterprises. But it is the media assets that are the jewels in the Murdoch empire crown, providing cash and increasing influence….
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. David Porter was at all the TF Much Ballrooms, he was at the Sunburys – in fact David was at everything that was going on in this town. I think that was perhaps what distinguished David from some of the other photographers of the era – he was a fan….
Robbo’s blah cont. .. after the game. Anyway the gig went well – I wore a TONY SHAW mask during the 1st set and after the gig rushed home and watched the replay and partied on! I’ve also been there the last two GF’s – OUCH! I had a gig on with Spectrum after the…
..such a hideous social faux pas that I’ve been known to clench manfully and sit on it for the entire evening, squeaking surreptitiously, no doubt.. But, back to Sleep. At a dinner party the other night I was obliged to pitch my rock opera, The Jellabad Mutant. It’s a palpable deficiency, given the business that…
..for somebody who is not my uncle, my aunt or my uncle’s client. I have friends who have permanently separated but still go out together, even sleep together, although presumably only on cold nights. It all seems very modern and, as divorce impacts at least a third of all marriages, nothing unusual. It may be…