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A few weeks ago I was lamenting, mostly out of nostalgia rather than any real attachment, the apparent demise of various once ubiquitous wine brands now owned by Treasury Wine Estate. Oddly enough, the astute will notice that I did not mention Kaiser Stuhl in my list – they have been gone for a while, …
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I’m mostly up to date on streaming Daisy Jones and the Six, and season three of Ted Lasso is two days away. So I need to find something to amuse myself with as I idle away the last hours of the Labour Day long weekend. So I have decided to do some idle speculations on …
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I must say, sadly (given that I am a committed constitutional monarchist), that I am wholeheartedly sick of the entertainers commonly known as Ginge and Cringe (aka the Duke and Duchess of Sussex). Netflix is wasting millions on indulging their egos with their ‘content production’ whilst excellent shows like Warrior Nun (what is not to …
One of my favourite characters in literature is the Scarlet Pimpernel, the elusive hero of a series of novels about the French Revolution, a mischievous fellow who somehow is always half a step in front of the Jacobins in his efforts to rescue worthy people from Madame Guillotine, much to the annoyance of the zealots. …
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http://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/senior-liberals-ordered-to-produce-documents-to-unmask-mystery-blogger-20230228-p5co67.html I find Real Freedom News highly entertaining and am disappointed that it remains offline. But you can understand why. If the identity of its author becomes known then I expect that their piggy bank will be rather pinched.
Red wine has been my poison of choice since my mid 20s. And I have considered myself fairly well informed about red wine since my early 30s. And since my early 30s, I have also frequently been an investor in publicly listed Australian wine companies. That started with BRL Hardy (now the privately owned Accolade) …
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http://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/full-of-mouldy-loins-but-i-can-t-throw-away-d-h-lawrence-20230214-p5ckcm.html This article does remind me that my 2000 volume library is unlikely to be reread, and that adding to it doesn’t really give me pleasure anymore.
The other day, a colleague who is really into all the Star Wars derivative shows on Disney+ asked me if I was up to date with The Bad Batch and had finished watching Andor yet. I told him that I was not even up to date on the rebooted How I Met Your Father (a …
In totally unrelated news to my recent post about Jane Caro’s latest Karenseque tirade, I have ordered some t- shirts more suitable for a man in his soon to be mid 50s.
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