Reason #143 that I love Australia: public holidays for trivial reasons. There’s the Queen’s Birthday in June (which is not actually the current or any past Queen of England’s birthday), Family and Community Day in the ACT in September, Eight Hours Day in Tasmania in March, Picnic Day in the Northern Territories in August and yesterday’s Adelaide [...]
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Now I see the bogans at the motor race.
This advert made me laugh out loud when I saw it in the local “newspaper” today:
It’s kind of an inside joke – Australians will definitely get it. For you non-Australians, let’s just say that if I were so inclined, I could quite easily produce a Mullets of Adelaide photoblog with daily updates. Without even venturing [...]
I live out yonder where the snakes and scorpions run
Boy Z and I need dates this weekend. For WOMADelaide. Dr. O’C is not a fan of ‘hippy shit’. (Nor, for that matter, am I. But I’m too old and Boy Z is too young for Big Day Out and I want to take some advantage of The Festival State’s offerings) And she reckons that [...]
And if I weren’t a civil servant, I’d have a place in the colonies
Often, what inspires me to write is some song or the other playing in the background while I’m doing something else. Last night, for example, I was cooking our Pancake Tuesday dinner and this track from 80’s greats Camper van Beethoven came on the old iPod.
…And if I weren’t a civil servant, I’d have a [...]
Walking down the street carrying a baseball bat
War has broken out in Australia. Well, in our household not the whole nation. Actually, to be completely accurate, not even the whole household. Boy Z and I are at war.* With rats.
The months since we had we had to put Timmins down have been tough for a number of reasons. There is the natural [...]
This life is sweet. You’re dancin’ in the street.
To those of you shoveling snow or scraping the ice off your windshield or grieving the meteorological predictions of an amphibious rodent I have one thing to say:
Suck it, Northern Hemisphere losers.
February rocks!
Now when you manage to get out of your parkas and your fingers thaw, go and check out my post on The Greenists today. [...]
You might find some fools at your doorstep
I was at the gym this morning. I’ve become slightly addicted to the gym - not in the knocking off convenience stores to pay my membership fees kind of addicted, more of a twice a week endorphin fueled buzz kind of addicted. Anyway, I was at the gym this morning and I noticed that they had [...]
Oh, Your daddy’s rich and your mamma’s good lookin’
The first time you hear a kookaburra call is pretty damn spooky. Here, have a listen. But when I hear them now, cackling madly in the Australian sun, I sprint outside for a look. There’s something about these birds, something quintessentially Australian.
And in the height of the Australian summer, on the eve of Australia Day, [...]
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere and gie’s a hand o’ thine
The Australian sun has been fierce in the waning days of 2009. And the north wind, roaring in ruthlessly from the hard baked, dusty interior. Summer is here and 2010 is poised to start with a fiery fury Down Under.
I like the heat. One of the many reasons I was happy to move down here. [...]
Will I be with you or will I be among the missing?
I’m firmly entrenched in a post-Christmas/midsummer haze of test cricket, soaring temperatures and boundless little boy energy.
The holidays were…fantastic.
I don’t know that I’ve ever thought, spoken or written that particular combination of those four words before. But this year was something special with family visiting and a proper American Thanksgiving and a gaggle of young [...]
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