Brisbane City

Whale Watching With The Lucky People

23 September 2011 Entertainment Australia

It’s been an absolutely glorious week here in Brisbane, a great start to the spring school holidays. If this were England, we’d be talking about a summer heatwave. It’s not. It’s Australia. And it’s still only early spring. On Monday, as you know, Elizabeth went to Redcliffe with her mummy and some of her friends [...]

Traffic Chaos in Brisbane? Clogged Roads? Try This….

3 November 2010 Life in Australia

The big news here in Australia this week is that “Americain” won the 2010 Melbourne Cup. If you don’t know what the Melbourne Cup is or how important it is here in Australia, then you should read my post from last year called….. Australia’s Unofficial National Holiday Because today I have something more important to [...]

Australian’s are Strange People, or is it just a Bizarre World?

29 October 2010 Life in Australia

Last Sunday we popped over to Fortitude Valley. We are having a Halloween party tomorrow night and Mrs BobinOz deemed that we were short of one tall drinking table out in the garden. So on Saturday we went-a table shopping and found the table we wanted in a store over at Jindalee. It was called [...]

Caxton Street, Brisbane: A Night in the City

27 September 2010 Entertainment Australia

Those of you who subscribe to my sometimes weekly, sometimes fortnightly depending on what’s happening newsletter will already know that on Friday Mrs BobinOz and I went out for the evening. Our little girl was having another sleepover and we weren’t going to waste the opportunity. On previous nights and out we’d been to the [...]

Here Is a Roundup of the News over the Last Seven Days.

22 January 2010 Life in Australia

DONG! Egg almost fries in King George Square. DONG! Dog stolen in audacious shop raid. DONG! Koala in intensive care. DONG! Eastern brown snake breaks into Ipswich shop. Nothing is stolen. Good evening. I first mentioned the Australian news to you in my post about what happens when there isn’t any news. Since then I’ve [...]

What is your favourite insect?

26 March 2009 Australia's Bad Things

I’m not sure if people, generally speaking, can instantly tell you what their favourite insect is. If you look closely at all of the possible contenders, I think that the only winner that makes any logical sense would be the bee. I am sure there isn’t another insect on the planet that works so hard [...]