Out for breakfast with parents and sister this morning we were perusing what’s on the telly tonight. “Look”, I said, “There’s a choice of “Sister Act” or “Billy Elliot”. My mum and I both agreed that the best parts of both those movies are the finales, especially the final scene of Billy Elliot when adult […]

I think might have been in a post-tennis TV watching slump this week. All the promises of the fabulous programming amounted to nothing and I was left with the usual suspects: Father Ted, Doctor Who, the return of Spicks and Specks, and a one-day cricket match. Tennis: Men’s Final Firstly, though you’d thought you’d heard […]

I think might have been in a post-tennis TV watching slump this week. All the promises of the fabulous programming amounted to nothing and I was left with the usual suspects: Father Ted, Doctor Who, the return of Spicks and Specks, and a one-day cricket match. Tennis: Men’s Final Firstly, though you’d thought you’d heard […]

I have an eisteddfod meeting this evening. It’s now ten years since I returned to Bundaberg and started helping out with the local music eisteddfod. Growing up as a child here and learning music it was one of the highlights of the year (that combined with the annual AMEB exams). So I was more than […]

I have an eisteddfod meeting this evening. It’s now ten years since I returned to Bundaberg and started helping out with the local music eisteddfod. Growing up as a child here and learning music it was one of the highlights of the year (that combined with the annual AMEB exams). So I was more than […]

Okay I’m just going to have come right out and say it. I’ve tried hard to like Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye but it doesn’t do a thing for me. He just sounds whiny and boring. Most telling of all, I never get the urge to sing along. Sorry Generation X, I feel I have failed […]

Okay I’m just going to have come right out and say it. I’ve tried hard to like Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye but it doesn’t do a thing for me. He just sounds whiny and boring. Most telling of all, I never get the urge to sing along. Sorry Generation X, I feel I have failed […]

I try not to post too much about my job but here’s something I just need to share. Apparently, rather than “prospective student inquiries” we have now have “sales requests”. We also provide “customer service” to our “stakeholders” – “key” or “otherwise”. (The things you learn when you go to a meeting that you had […]

I try not to post too much about my job but here’s something I just need to share. Apparently, rather than “prospective student inquiries” we have now have “sales requests”. We also provide “customer service” to our “stakeholders” – “key” or “otherwise”. (The things you learn when you go to a meeting that you had […]

I have quite a lot of gum trees down the end of my backyard, past the billy goat’s gruff bridge which runs over the creek (o.k. so it’s a really a drain, but it’s not all concreted so it looks like a creek and that’s what I’m calling it). In those gum trees live a […]