Beer Prices in Australia. Whilst the production team (me) here at BobinOz do not condone excessive alcohol consumption we do appreciate that some people might enjoy an occasional glass of wine or the odd beer. The occasions Mrs BobinOz enjoys wine include nightfall and my idea of an odd beer would be 11 cans of [...]
October 2009
I think I may have mentioned it elsewhere on this blog, but when some friends of my wife’s came to stay with us last year they commented that living where we live was “as close to paradise as you can get”. Yes, we think so too. But even in Paradise you need to put the [...]
Perhaps you thought you were going to get away without hearing about any of Australia’s Bad Things this week, after all, I have never posted about bad things on a Friday before. Until today. It’s difficult to know what scares people the most about coming to Australia, but I imagine the top three are snakes, [...]
Anybody living or who has lived in the UK and is somewhere approaching as old as I am, will remember the days when British Telecom could charge people whatever they wanted, treat them however they felt like treating them and banked almost 300 gazillion million pounds in clear profit every single second. Then, 25 years [...]
Yesterday I spoke about the fastest growing extreme sport currently on our shores here in Australia: Kite surfing. But as with all extreme sports, there is an element of danger. Having sold you (hopefully) on the excitement of the sport, it would be very wrong of me not to warn you of those dangers. The [...]
You might remember when I went to Wellington Point for a Sunday afternoon out, I got chatting to an Aussie guy about kite boarding. So what is kite boarding? Well, I think it’s more commonly known as kite surfing and it goes like this….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLjbmkQq-l0 What I learnt about kite surfing. Jumps, which is what [...]
“It” has only been mentioned three times in the entire archives of BobinOz. Sami mentioned “it” in her guest post; on that occasion “it” surfaced over at Mooloolaba Beach, but of course I didn’t see it. “It” also gets mentioned twice more, firstly when I talked about the heavy storms we suffered in May earlier [...]
Commonly known as Skippy the bush kangaroo. It all started over 40 years ago. Skippy always saved the day. 91 episodes over 3 series. Sold to 128 countries worldwide. Viewed by 300 million viewers a week. On the 16th of September in 1956 something new arrived in Australia. It was called television. Unfortunately, it was [...]
