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After the Banking Royal Commission made its report in the not so distant past, I read several of the books published by finance journalists with morbid curiosity. The way that major banks and leading financial institutions had behaved, particularly to honest business loan holders and to trusting mum & dad investors, showed a degree of …
Continue reading “The Imminent and Indirect Remutualisation of IOOF”
My god daughter is having her 8th birthday this weekend, and so I am loading her up with chapter books so she can become more proficient at reading. I doubt that the Muddle Headed Wombat I ordered will arrive in time, and I realised when I re-read Paddington Bear a few years ago that the …
Continue reading “Sometimes, you do need to be Italian to really ‘get’ Italian literature”
Readers of this blog who scroll far enough into the deep recesses four years ago when I set it up will know that I have no fondness for Facebook and that this blog was originally set up as an alternative way for me to share my travel adventures from my 2019 trip to Italy. That …
I first visited the Embassy Taxi Cafe in Spencer Street in May 1989, either before or after the Metallica concert at Festival Hall. They made, and still make, some of the best fish and chip shop burgers in Melbourne. I was reminded of this last Friday when I popped in for the first time in …
Do unto Spain what Elizabeth the First did to the Armada!
Over a decade and a half ago, a friend told me that he had just ordered a new dinner suit as he had joined a yacht club and they regularly held formal dinners he needed to attend. There was no talk of him actually going out in a yacht of course – it was all …
Continue reading “Why The Matildas 2023 Dream Run Is Just Like Winning The Americas Cup In 1983”
In nature, the lionesses of a pride hunt for prey and provide food for the lions. So it is in soccer (a sport I profusely dislike). The Lionesses of the English Women’s team last night provided a goal to feed each of the three Lions on their shirts as they comprehensively thrashed the Matildas. Rollo! …
I was browsing today and saw this display of supposedly trendy clothing featuring Carlton Draught logos. It is by some clothing company called Nina and Pasadena. They use this branding to justify charging $79.95 for a t-shirt. This sort of over charging for becoming a walking advertisement for a beer brand makes me wonder whether …
Continue reading “When Beer Merchandise Becomes Fashionable….”
Few people would have ever heard of the Southern Aurora Hotel. It was demolished in early 1993. It might have been the roughest pub in Greater Melbourne. It was located just next to Dandenong Railway Station. I visited it one Friday evening in May 1992, when I happened to be working in Dandenong. I had …
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A former friend of mine, as he descended deeper into a fantasy world which was either delusional or border personality disorder, once confided to a mutual friend that his intention was to go into space. This is the problem we will find with all those people who sit on the couch watching Star Trek or …
Continue reading “The Poor Man’s Ziggy Stardust – Some Belated Reflections On Babylon Zoo”
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