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Carpe Dinkum: August 2008
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Sunday, August 31, 2008. Seriously, the Australian tourist board owes me some warmth. That’s the thought that wafted through my head recently as I awaited a friend at Newtown station. I was stamping my feet against the cold and wrapped in full body armour against the winter; a blue Michelin man in my Dad’s old duffle coat, thermal hat and gloves. Call in the National Guard! Well, at least it is dry and nice during the daytime. And since that low point the Spring is finally bringing finer weather....
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Carpe Dinkum: April 2009
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Saturday, April 25, 2009. April 25th is ANZAC day. On that day in 1915, under Winston Churchill's plan to open the Black Sea for the Allied forces, the Australia and New Zealand Army Corp landed on a beach on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. In the following 8 months, over 8,000 Australian and 2,700 New Zealand soldiers died - without gaining more than a few metres of beach. The ANZAC legend recounts the hardship, bravery and sacrifice of the troops. It is not clear to me that this is strictly true....
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Carpe Dinkum: June 2009
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Saturday, June 13, 2009. When it was proposed I was decidedly unsure about it. Kayaking on Saturday, despite the fact that it was six degrees - the entire idea was clearly completely nuts. My politicking against the plan was too subtle and I was left wondering if might be worth breaking my own arm to avoid the event. And then, once again, Sydney surprised me. Climbing out of the water over razor sharp mussel-shells. We took in a visiting exhibit of "Soft Sculptures". These were a wide variety of obje...
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Carpe Dinkum: August 2009
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Friday, August 14, 2009. Madness (amongst other things) overtook me at the weekend. It wasn't hard to spot. I was running down the middle of the road on some of Sydney's widest boulevards at 9am. Not the act of a sane person. It shouldn't be that hard. After all, Bondi is no more than 5k from the City centre. And yet the sadists that run the event feel it is necessary to take 70,000 people around 14.4kms of coastal cliffs. Time to take up cycling. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cheese Wine Everything Fine.
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Carpe Dinkum: May 2009
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Sunday, May 03, 2009. It was over the Christmas 2001 holidays that I decided to emigrate to Australia. I had been working in Cork and when I returned there in January 2002 I resolved to make a new life Down Under. The process was expensive, bureaucratic and lengthy. Yesterday (May 2nd, 2009) it came to an end as I took the Australian Citizenship pledge. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Aoife's Adventures in Darkest Peru. Cheese Wine Everything Fine. View my complete profile.
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Carpe Dinkum: February 2008
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Sunday, February 24, 2008. I don’t really get. Cricket. There’s something suspicious about a sport that takes a whole working week to reach a conclusion. In fact it’s a dubious proposition in my mind whether it can deservingly be defined as a sport at all. I think it is in fact ‘a game’. Honestly, can it be a sport if the spectators are getting more exercise than the participants? South Africa: 170, 178/4 (57.0 Ovs). And that’s just the one team’s score! With 21 needed and six wickets still in hand,.
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Carpe Dinkum: Getting Softer
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Sunday, August 31, 2008. Seriously, the Australian tourist board owes me some warmth. That’s the thought that wafted through my head recently as I awaited a friend at Newtown station. I was stamping my feet against the cold and wrapped in full body armour against the winter; a blue Michelin man in my Dad’s old duffle coat, thermal hat and gloves. Call in the National Guard! Well, at least it is dry and nice during the daytime. And since that low point the Spring is finally bringing finer weather....That ...
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Carpe Dinkum: Afraid to Move
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009. I love my little house. I love that it is still a work in progress. I love the potential inherent in its manifold weakness. I love that it is mine and that it is a place where I can have things the way I want them. I’ve had a cleaner in. Not that it needed a cleaner* you understand. The house was perfectly tidy. Granted I had accumulated the odd bit of bric-a-brak that I didn’t need but nothing on a significant scale. So I’m just going to sit here and be very quiet. I'm pretty ...
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Carpe Dinkum: Softer Still
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Friday, December 12, 2008. Sydney has softened me to the point that I think 11 degrees Celsius is insufferably cold. But it is easy to see why: Your correspondent writes to you from his back-garden hammock; Cold drink in hand on a balmy (32C) December day. Have some Christmas pud ice cream though. It's lovely. 1:23 AM, December 14, 2008. Perhaps we should celebrate BOTH. Think what two commercialised gift giving festivals would do for the world economy. 1:29 AM, December 15, 2008. View my complete profile.
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Carpe Dinkum: Citizen Kelly
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Sunday, May 03, 2009. It was over the Christmas 2001 holidays that I decided to emigrate to Australia. I had been working in Cork and when I returned there in January 2002 I resolved to make a new life Down Under. The process was expensive, bureaucratic and lengthy. Yesterday (May 2nd, 2009) it came to an end as I took the Australian Citizenship pledge. How many tinnies did you have to sink before the pledge? 12:15 AM, May 05, 2009. Where the beer is cold and the summers are warm! View my complete profile.
