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Do you remember when buying a lightbulb used to be so simple? In the good old days of buying a lightbulb you really only had three decisions to make. First, do you want frosted glass or clear glass? Second, do you want 40, 60 or 100 Watts? And finally, do you want a bayonet or [...]

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On Fridays, as you probably know, I like to look around Australia to see what’s going on elsewhere. Of course, I don’t study the news to do this, I just head straight over to YouTube and search for recent videos from each of our major cities. This week though, what with it being just 13 [...]

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There has been a lot of talk about Melbourne recently on this website on account of our one-week holiday in that city a couple of weeks ago. We’ve had: A Week in Melbourne with a Hint of St Kilda The Little Penguin Parade on Phillip Island The Australian Bull Ant: A Very Big Ant Indeed [...]

Beers

Australian Beers and Beer Measures In my earlier post about drinking and driving in Australia, I mentioned I’d had two Cascade Lights and they were only schooners. I promised I would clear all that up and so I will. Mids, Lights and Heavies.   We never much had this sort of thing in England, but [...]