On a two week break that was imposed by the recent floods in Queensland, the Brisbane Roar got their season back underway at Skilled Park in the Gold Coast on Australia Day.  The Roar’s usual homeground, Suncorp Stadium, will still be in recovery mode until possibly the final game of the season. It was my first trip to Skilled Park.  ...

You wouldn’t have expected it a couple of weeks ago but it was bone dry and absolutely scorching weather for Big Day Out 2011 in Queensland. This was the 19th year that Big Day Out has been held and it continued the festival’s trend in recent years of really serving up a seriously eclectic mix of artists.  The headlining acts ...

More fun than a barrel of yarn

Japan Wins: celebrates with 5-0 demolition of Saudi Arabia Japan celebrated their qualification into the quarter finals of the Asian Cup with an emphatic 5-0 win over 2007 finalists Saudi Arabia.  The win caps off a miserable campaign for the Saudis who lost every single game and comes as some relief to the Japanese who had to rely on last ...

Glee – Season 2 I only just found time to finish watching the two most recent episodes of Glee (Sectionals & Christmas) but now that I have a bit of downtime because I’m on Flood Break I’ve been able to catch up. I dug both episodes and they rounded out the first half of this season nicely.  I’ve timed this ...

It’s about time I gave everyone an update on how the Asian Cup is going.  It takes a certain dedicatation to watch as much terrible football as I do and at weird hours of the night too.  And because I’ve had all this time off work due to the floods, it’s meant that I’ve been able to stay up at ...

Malt whisky and my appreciation for it has been a relatively recent development in my life.  When I was younger, I used to enjoy the occasional dram here and there but I didn’t pay it much notice and if anything, I found the strong taste a bit off-putting.  When I would drink socially, I would stick with beer. My brother ...

Thankfully, the flood is finally starting to recede in Brisbane and life is slowing going back to normal.  Happily, our apartment wasn’t affected by the flood and neither were the homes of our closest friends and family.  That said there were tens of thousands of homes that have been devastated by the floods and the recovery effort will take a ...

TFW readers with long(ish) memories might recall that a year ago, at the start of the decade, I made some predictions for the next ten years covering a range of topics including politics, science, technology and for The FAT Website itself.  You can read that full blog here. Anyway, we’re 1/10th of the way to 2020 and I thought it ...