Yes, let’s talk about my favourite subject, football. I wrote this article for Australia and New Zealand magazine some time ago, in fact it would probably have been around June 2017 and it appeared in August 2017 in their magazine. Right at the start of the new football season. Of course, the season is nearly [...]
Foxtel
As I mentioned in Mondays post about City2Surf, I had a quiet weekend home alone and spent some of it watching the opening games of the English Premier League on TV. This year though, for the first time since moving to Australia back in 2007, I wasn’t watching it on Foxtel. In Australia, Foxtel no [...]
There was an interesting item in the news the other day which talked about the ‘Australia Tax’ which doesn’t technically exist, not officially anyway. It is used to describe the premium prices we sometimes have to pay for the same products or services simply because we are here in Australia. This is Joe Hockey, our [...]
Some weekends can work out to be surprisingly simple, extremely entertaining and astonishingly cheap. This weekend was a great example of that. As with most weekends, it started on Friday evening at around six o’clock. My Aussie mate Pete came round and we popped down to the Sports & Rec for a couple of early [...]
