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Survivor: One World – Episode 11 – “Never Say Die” Okay I give up.  Survivor: One World was a season with an interesting premise and a fresh cast but this episode was just too much stupidity for me to handle. It’s been a somewhat entertaining season in its early stages, particularly because of the stupidity of some of the contestants ...

Game of Thrones Season Two Episode Four – Garden of Bones For my money, this season of Game of Thrones has continued the high standard set by the first season and continues to be my favourite show on the air.  This season has done an excellent job at ratcheting up the stakes of the first season with the four kings ...

Brisbane Roar 2 – Perth Glory 1 Leave it to Brisbane to win a Grand Final in the 7th minute of injury time.  The team are the comeback kings of the competition and now they have become the first team to win back-to-back Grand Finals after a highly controversial night at Suncorp Stadium. The game was dubbed Orange Sunday II ...

Platform:  iPhone Developer:  Beautiful Game Studios Publisher:  Denki For some reason, despite being a pretty keen gamer and owning an iPhone, I don’t actually do a whole lot of gaming on the iPhone.  I don’t really know why.  I guess when I’m at work or commuting and I want to use my phone recreationally, I mostly use Twitter or browse ...

Jen randomly found a store selling Series Four mini-figs and I got a second guitarist out of it.  That was enough to make a band.

Pony Lounge & Dining is a tapas eatery that Jen and I stumbled across while wandering around The Rocks in Sydney.  It’s a pretty trendy looking bistro that offers up a modern Australian form of tapas which basically means its a hodge podge of food from just about everywhere.  For our seven courses we had a mixture of meats, seafood ...

Jen and I went away to Sydney as our good friend Zara was getting married to her fiancee Nick.  We made a mini-holiday out of the occasion and got away for four nights.  We managed to cram a fair bit in. On Thursday night while Jen was at Zara’s hens night, I caught up with my friend Nick.  Nick was ...

DISTILLERY Talisker ALCOHOL 57% REGION Isle of Skye COLOR Amber, much lighter than a regular 10 year old Talisker NOSE Sweet fruit, nectar PALATE PHWOOOAAAARRRRR — Talisker is already pretty potent in its regular form, but the 57% percent packs a mean punch.  It’s now much more front loaded in taste.  It has a strong bite but still retains that ...

On the Easter Weekend we built the Lego Fire Brigade for Sarah’s birthday. I’ve had my eye on Lego’s modular series of buildings for some time.  They’ve done a range including a green grocer, a pet store, a cafe, a hotel and a town hall.  The Fire Brigade is about a year old and is 2,231 pieces. Happily, I can ...