We’ve had some friends recommend that we get onto Grays Online, an Australian auction site, for a while now and this weekend Jen and I finally got on the bandwagon.  12 bottles of Hope Estate, which normally retails for $38 a bottle, ours for the princely sum of $7.42.  Soooo good. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Now that I’ve finished off Stephen King’s Under the Dome I’m now going to head in a completely different direction for my next book.  Next up is Tim Park’s football journal A Season With Verona which details the British author’s experience of spending a season following the club Hellas Verona and its supporters. I can’t say I know much about ...

Domo arigato, Mr King.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MmCanaLQGE[/youtube] Soooo good. Episode One airs on Halloween.  Not long to go now.  🙂

83% of Australians didn’t believe Labor deserved to be in government. However, 52% said it was better than the alternative. – Galaxy Poll taken late in the campaign “In terms of running the campaign, decisions are made by a small group of people who quite frankly just operated on political cliches.” – Alannah McTiernan, recently retired Labor MP referring to ...

I’m back in Brisbane after a near-four week holiday.  It’s back to work today.  The apartment also needs a to have a bit of tidying.  There’s laundry that needs doing.  *Sigh* I’ll be blogging about Scotland and Malaysia in due course.  It was a pretty sweet holiday though.  Here’s a sampler of some of the stuff we got up to.

Okay everyone, me and Jen are hitting the trail and heading off on our holiday for the next four weeks.  We’re doing Edinburgh, London and Kota Kinabalu in that order.  Feel free to hit me up on Facebook if you think you’ll be free to catch up anywhere amongst that.

It just wouldn’t be a complete election without a Liberal party member or supporter providing us with some dodgy race-baiting xenophobia and hardline religious bigotry for us to shake our heads at. If you recall in 2007, some Coalition supporters in the marginal seat of Lindsay thought that handing out these flyers, posing as the ALP, would be a good ...

Nolan with my homies

“This is one of the least important elections in modern Australian history” – Waleed Aly, political analyst. It’s been a thoroughly underwhelming campaign so far in the 2010 election.  As noted by Aly and other political pundits, there’s not really a lot at stake here.  We’ve seen the worst of the Global Financial Crisis, both parties have fallen over themselves ...