I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
A friend of mine came over yesterday for a couple of beers and to drop off some of his wine making equipment in anticipation that we will make wine again this year. He grew up in the far outer eastern suburbs which Aston encompasses. His view of the Liberal Party’s decision to parachute in an …
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I must say that I have never met anyone who went to St Kevin’s whom I liked. Self entitled brats. And we all know about the misogynistic songs they sing in public. The train this morning was infested with a host of them, making their way from the western suburbs to Toorak. One of them …
Yesterday’s announcement by the state opposition leader that he was going to seek the expulsion from the Victorian Liberal Parliamentary Party Room of recently elected MP, the Hon. Moira Deeming MLC, did not exactly come as a major surprise to me. Her prior high profile as a Melton Councillor, where she was outspoken as a …
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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, …
Continue reading “The Flavour No Longer Hits You: Whatever became of Samboy Salt and Vinegar Chips?”
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 …
Continue reading “Cui Bono? How To Unmask The Author Of Real Freedom News”
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. …
Continue reading “Real Freedom News – A Symptom But Not The Illness”
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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