Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 28th, 2010
Credit to The King, but I’ll link instead to the surprisingly good JXL remix. A lateral take on the title of our entertainment for last night. You have to give Adelaide credit for the cultural smorgasbord on offer. Many of the other state capitals look down their noses and liken this city to the equivalent [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 16th, 2010
And now we can … literally. When we lived in Leicester, it occasionally became hot. A really warm day might have just squeaked the mid thirties. On such days, and the inevitable muggy succeeding night, we sweated it out uncomfortably. But, typically of the Midlands, the heatwave never lasted that long and broken sleep was [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 14th, 2010
A comedic great rather than a musical reference this time. While Leicester had it’s fair share of violent crime and assaults, gunshot wounds were pretty rare. Similarly here in South Australia, despite slightly more relaxed ownership laws, we see relatively few shootings. So, while recently on nights for the Retrieval Service, it came as a [...]
Posted in BodyPump on Feb 8th, 2010
Time flies and it hardly seems like yesterday that we launched the last release, yet in fact it was before Christmas. With the local instructor quarterlies this weekend, it will only be a few weeks will be launch BodyPump 73, so time to put up the preview: BODYPUMP® 73 is challenging, bordering on punishing, but [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 1st, 2010
As you will all remember, I’ve been thinking about ways to remain in Australia at my discretion, rather than being beholden to the immigration department every couple of years. So far, my plan has always been to gain specialist status and then use that to request permanent residency on the grounds of being indispensable. But, [...]
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