Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 31st, 2007
I had intended this entry to be a record of our visit to the 2007 Adelaide Motor Show. Partly because I’m on nights at the moment, and partly because we’re both tired after doing Pump this morning, the trip has been binned. This was going to be an opportunity to see what will be available [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 30th, 2007
This time a more recognisable pop culture reference, as I have been informed that many of you have missed my Simpsons and Futurama quotes. The worst of the summer is over and it has become a lot more pleasant lately. We’ve had some more drizzle which is keeping the lawn green. This is very welcome [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 26th, 2007
If you haven’t seen it yet, I urge you to rush out and see Hot Fuzz. We went to the cinema on Saturday night to see the eagerly awaited second film by the makers of the hysterical Shaun of the Dead. If you have seen Shaun of the Dead, you will find Hot Fuzz very [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 23rd, 2007
At last the heavens have opened and we have finally had some rain today. The lawns are looking a lot greener and it has dropped the air temperature nicely. This is the first time it has rained properly since I arrived almost 2 months ago. Sure it had “rained” a couple of times before, but [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 22nd, 2007
I hope you will share our palpable sense of relief now the cats have arrived safe and sound. We picked them up from the airport here yesterday afternoon and brought them to their new home. They don’t seem to have suffered from their plane trips and imprisonment at the quarantine facility in Sydney. Since we [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 19th, 2007
… have Covent Garden to come to you (apologies for plagarism to Francis Bacon). Yesterday, in between finishing day shifts and starting nights, we went to the International Buskers Festival at the Adelaide Fringe. The festival is run annually as part of a month long celebration of arts and culture in the city. I remember [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 17th, 2007
Just for those who think we have been having too good a time – it’s back to work again time. I’ve just finished the on-call days and tomorrow the night shifts commence. We’ve been unusually busy of late, which made a change from the first couple of weeks. It is nice being busy as it [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 13th, 2007
Anyone would think we were obsessed! Yesterday was a public holiday here. The Australians do public holidays properly and everything shuts down for the day. This was in honour of the 2007 running of the Adelaide Cup. It’s a racing festival on the same scale as the Epsom Derby or the Cheltenham Gold Cup. While [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 11th, 2007
Last night Regan, her father and I went up to Globe Derby Park – local home to harness racing. I’d never seen this form of horse-racing before and Regan hadn’t been for a while, so we made a night of it and had a flutter on each race. As you can see it was another [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 7th, 2007
At long last we are online again. I won’t bore you with the details but the phone company made a mountain out of a molehill and it has taken almost 2 weeks to get the phone line and broadband working. But here we are on a shiny new connection which means Regan and I can [...]
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