Now this my friends could be the best ever home made cappuccino (for me at any rate). Just look at that milk foam!!
Now this my friends could be the best ever home made cappuccino (for me at any rate). Just look at that milk foam!!
Skimming is the common term for credit/debit card fraud and amazingly, in recent weeks a gang from, “a particular part of Asia” has skimmed approx. A$50million from Australian bank accounts. Westpac bank have blocked over 10,000 of their customers cards while police involved in the investigation say it’s the biggest attack of this type they […]
In Townsville, Nth Qld, going for a walk along The Strand, Jay is wearing some of the bright new gear I brought him from Sai Gon.
This is the sort of article that just makes me feel good all over Eight one-day-old ducklings were safely rescued on April 14 by Wormalds University contract fire technician Dave Peebles and School of Integrative Biology PhD student Beth Symonds. The ducklings fell down a deep drain near the St Lucia campus bus stop while […]
shit, Thorpey’s dead at 60. Haven’t had the time to think about it since I read the news a few days ago, but it was his funeral service today at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and about 7,000 people turned up. If I was in Sydney I would have been tempted to go along myself. Today […]
A few months before we left Viet Nam I had finally begun learning the Vietnamese language with the Friendship School on Vo Thi Sau St, and it was my intention to continue learning Vietnamese when I returned to Australia. Subsequently I enrolled in the VN language course at Queensland University, but sadly, it was cancelled […]
Could there ever possibly be another test cricket series with as much to offer as the one that finished yesterday? Somehow I doubt it.
Despite my previous article about the oddities of how you must enter the R E Hotel at Toowong and my lament about baggage allowance on aircraft I don’t believe that I have become a Grumpy Old Bastard (GOB), but I just hate it when stupidity seems to rule the day. So here is another stupidity, […]
In my previous article below I mentioned spending time with my Grandson for his first Christmas. Just have a look at this gorgeous boy and you’ll realise why I can’t wait to spend time with him, and of course it will be nice to see the rest of the family as well
I’m batching at the moment and on Sunday night I decided I didn’t want to stay home alone. Instead, I headed on down to the Royal Exchange Hotel in Toowong because I thought it would be pleasant to sit in their beer-garden, have a cold beer and maybe order a steak meal. It was raining […]
I’ve just spent two half days completing the Q-Ride training course with Ace Riding School at Alderley to obtain my “R” motorcycle license. Considering that I’ve been riding motorbikes since I was about 12 years old and I’m now a fair bit older than that I thought it might be about time to become street […]
This quite large adult Blue Tongue lizard has suddenly appeared in our garden. I’m not sure whether it is a new resident or whether it has been hiding out since we moved in but it now moves around finding the best places to sun itself and has a well concealed tunnel underneath the steps to […]
Happy happy us, our new office has just been fitted out at home and we are no longer forced to work at the dining room table downstairs. there’s a bit of tidying up still to do but the verdict after the first day “in office” is a definite thumbs up. high speed wireless Internet connection […]
When I first moved to Queensland from my home city of Melbourne many moons ago I can remember very clearly being assured by my then parents-in-law to be that Brisbane “was a great place to bring up the children”. I’m not saying they were wrong, but I’ve never been able to figure out exactly what […]
Death has been featuring a lot in my life recently. Dennis couldn’t come down to Canungra with Henry and I over the Anzac Day weekend as he was in Sydney at his mother’s funeral. Down at Canungra Jack reminded us that April 24th was Kapyong Day and we took a moment to remember those soldiers […]