No ride to work but carpark was good

Today is Ride to Work day in Australia.  It is a day encouraging workers to ride instead of drive being promoted all over the country.
I woke up at 7.05AM this morning, ready to cycle to the Art Gallery and join fellow cyclists for a free breakfast. 
I got changed, had a small breakfast, packed my bag [...]

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Perth Royal Show

What a great week off work! One of the activities we got up to was going to the Royal Show.
In the last 2 years, we went later in the day so we could try to fit in the fireworks – but we found that the Woolworths Pavilion and some of the Animal Pavilions were closed [...]

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Supanova expo this weekend

A friend just passed me a flyer to Supanova, a “pop culture” expo that is on this weekend. 
At first I thought, what the &#$@ is “pop culture”?   Ths Supanova expo seems to encompass movie stars, sci-fi, comic books, anime and cartoons, computer gaming, LAN party, card gaming and more.  
One interesting thing that the kids (and [...]

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Memories of Michael Jackson

On the way to dropping the kids off to school this morning, I had the radio on and couldn’t believe my ears when I heard that Michael Jackson had passed away.  What?!? THE Michael Jackson?
I’m sure some of us have stories involving Michael’s music in some way or another.  Sure people now think he is [...]

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Too many things on in Perth!

Who says Perth is dullsville??
I was overwhelmed with the number of things on this weekend!   There was just TOO much going on at once – it was hard to decide which one to go to (let alone, afford to go to more than one of these big events/concerts)!!!   Here was the shortlist of what I [...]

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Stevie Wonder in Perth!

And so we joined the thousands streaming into the Burswood Dome for what should be another great concert – Stevie Wonder in concert!  The Motown dude with a zillion hits.  The crowd was quite mixed – I’m not sure if there is any stereotypical Stevie Wonder fan, but we definitely had lots of music friends [...]

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Labour + Liberal coalition?

I have to give full credit to two close work friends for this.
They were discussing what was the best way to resolve the current stalemate in WA’s state election.  One way to stop Brendon Grylls of the National Party from having to decide whether to side with Labour or Liberal, is for Labour and Liberal [...]

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A night out with ACO

Due to some great friends and some luck, we were able to secure two great seats to the ACO Vivacious concert last night.  I was really looking forward to this concert as I hadn’t heard the ACO for a while,  there seems to be great reviews for the guest musical director and I was keen [...]

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City to Surf adventure

This year was the first year the kids actually walked the City to Surf.   In previous years, the City to Surf walk took a different form of physical challenge from “push the kids for 4kms” to “baby bjorn the baby for 4kms”
The first major hurdle was getting the kids up in time for [...]

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More fun with Google Maps Street View in Perth

I don’t know why, but I find it really fun to wander around my home city of Perth virtually! I should just get up and get outside, but no… walking with a mouse is so much more fun
Here are some funny things I found in the Street View of Perth in [...]

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