Earlier this week, Jen and I went to try out The Euro, a popular new brasserie that opened about eighteen months ago as an expansion to Urbane Restaurant.  We were there for a five course Plantaganet dinner where each course was being complimented with a Plantagenet wine.  We had pretty high expectations.  The restaurant rates very highly in the Brisbane ...

DISTILLERY Glen Moray TYPE Single Malt ALCOHOL 40% REGION Speyside COLOR Pale gold NOSE Faint, but sweet aroma of vanilla and butter PALATE Very crisp and sweet. FINISH Not particularly lasting, a lingering note of peat and thats about it SCORE 70 out of 100 NOTES This was the whisky that my work colleagues got me for my birthday this ...

There was a tweet earlier today from Matt that bemoaned Dubai’s predictability in its weather – always hot, humid and sunny.  Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but occasionally I feel the same way with Brisbane.  It’s always at a pleasantly mild twentysomething degrees and since the flood in January, it’s gone back to behaving itself and ...

Red Dog Redemption

I had a rather unusually protracted birthday celebration this year as it co-incided with my recent holiday with all the relatives in town.  So Jen and I celebrated a week early, then we celebrated with the family on the actual day and then a few weeks later I caught up with my friends for a drink.  Lastly, for some strange ...

You wait for years for a new show about dinosaurs to turn up and then in September we get two at once.  The BBC are airing Planet Dinosaur, a successor to their famous Walking With Dinosaurs series.  Across the Atlantic, the Discovery Channel are launching Dinosaur Revolution.  Here’s the trailer.  The special effects look a wee bit dodgy but I’m ...

Ape Escape

Average Avenging

It was only last night when we said farewell to Jen’s parents as they flew out to China did it really feel like the closing chapter to a four week winter holiday.  It all started in mid-July when we had relatives arrive from around the world – visiting from Scotland, China and America.  Six in total.  Plus all of Jen’s ...

Starting from tomorrow, I’m going to have six relatives visiting Jen and I in Brisbane for the next three or four weeks.  I won’t have any free time to update The FAT Website until the week starting August 8th. Hopefully in the downtime, some of the other TFW bloggers might do an update or two.  I hear one person has ...