I’ve really loved Graham Kennedy for a long time. My earliest memory is of his return to night time television in the 1970s. One of the unfortunate parts of living in the country in this period was dodgy communications which meant that the “live” Graham Kennedy show from Melbourne was often disrupted due to telecommunication failures between Sydney and Brisbane. For that reason I don’t actually remember the famous crow call when Graham said, “Faaaark”…
Coonamble is a small town in Western NSW, not far from Bourke, about 553km from Sydney. It took us about 7 hours to get there and 10 to return, due to public holiday traffic problems in the Blue Mountains. The idea came from my friend Yvette, who thought it would be a good idea to go away for the weekend co-inciding with the annual Coonamble Rodeo & Campdraft (CR&C) which sees hundreds of competitors saddling…
It’s Wednesday night, close to midnight, and I’m wide awake. I had to go into work tonight at short notice – a baby arrived early for one of the blokes I work with – and so I’m mentally very alert. And with this alertness, I thought it a good idea to update my website, as a fair bit has happened since last Friday night when I last posted. Saturday was a reasonably social day, starting…
It’s Friday night and I’m at home listening to the radio. Bernie Hobbs from ABC Science is on 702 tonight and I’m listening for both professional and personal reasons. For those who know me, which is you, the professional bit is obvious, but the personal is because I genuinely like listening to her on the radio. I think she has a great energy about her. I’ve just realised my last three updates have all been…
It’s Sunday night and I’m sitting at the Convenience Store on the corner of Devonshire and Crown Streets. My computer won’t start at the moment and so I have to take it for repairs sometime this week. But until then, it’s me and a couple of others typing away while observing the passing parade of people going to the service station, the Blockbuster video store and the Erciyes pide house which are located opposite. In…
It’s Monday night and I’m still at work. I’ve done all that I needed to do today, but I can’t go home just yet. The problem is the power supply on my computer at home: it’s not working. So I’ve decided to stay back and do an update on my life which has been incredibly busy. As well as work, there’s also been a lot of socialising, including dinner with Damien at a restaurant in…