Hey MondayWhat’s happening? I’d just like to congratulate you on your pleasant start to the day. It’s not stinking hot and humid like ALL OF LAST WEEK. Instead, you bring me lots of rain, lovely rain. You are reviving my poor plants in the garden and making my lawn green again. For that I thank […]

It wasn’t the busiest week in the world that is Wendy’s Week of TV 2.0. The main reason for this was that from Sunday through Tuesday I was Brisbane and consequently didn’t watch ANY TV AT ALL. How did I survive you may be wondering? Well I did view some other things that weren’t television. […]

It wasn’t the busiest week in the world that is Wendy’s Week of TV 2.0. The main reason for this was that from Sunday through Tuesday I was Brisbane and consequently didn’t watch ANY TV AT ALL. How did I survive you may be wondering? Well I did view some other things that weren’t television. […]

First a short rant about the tennis. I think I might be suffering from a tennis overload. Not that I’ve particularly watched a great deal of tennis. It’s just that the tennis is always there. Not only the tennis, but also “after the tennis”. You know what Channel Seven I think I noted this last […]

First a short rant about the tennis. I think I might be suffering from a tennis overload. Not that I’ve particularly watched a great deal of tennis. It’s just that the tennis is always there. Not only the tennis, but also “after the tennis”. You know what Channel Seven I think I noted this last […]

Last August or so I blithely whacked together an abstract for a local journal run from the uni here. The issue is about supporting postgraduate students so I wrote an abstract entitled “Scribbling in the Margins: Negotiating the tensions and challenges of the regional research student”. The due date for the paper was the end […]

Last August or so I blithely whacked together an abstract for a local journal run from the uni here. The issue is about supporting postgraduate students so I wrote an abstract entitled “Scribbling in the Margins: Negotiating the tensions and challenges of the regional research student”. The due date for the paper was the end […]

I found this list on The Second Half I’ve highlighted the ones I’ve done. I can’t be bothered counting if I passed 50. Perhaps I am unAustralian after all 1.Started your own blog.2. Slept under the stars.3. Played in a band. I’m hoping a school band counts here.4. Visited The Great Barrier Reef.5. Stood under […]

I found this list on The Second Half I’ve highlighted the ones I’ve done. I can’t be bothered counting if I passed 50. Perhaps I am unAustralian after all 1.Started your own blog.2. Slept under the stars.3. Played in a band. I’m hoping a school band counts here.4. Visited The Great Barrier Reef.5. Stood under […]

Dear Channel 7 You seem to have been making quite a hullabaloo about your Australian Open coverage starting in the evenings at 7pm. Here in Queensland for years we have put up with you broadcasting everything an hour later than it has actually happened in Melbourne yet still pretending it is “live”. Have you never […]