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Edo currently lives in Australia where he spends his time playing video games and enjoying his wife's cooking.

Lego Minifigs Series 8

Lego Minifigures Series 8 have arrived in Australia!  Too be honest, it doesn’t seem that long ago that Series 7 arrived on our shores.  Having said that, there are some pretty sweet minifigs in this set and its a lot cheaper and friendlier for shelf space in my apartment than getting another modular building. My first haul yielded the deejay, ...

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The Gunslinger by Stephen King

“The man in black fled across the dessert, and the gunslinger followed.” When it comes to books, I’m always cautious of the fantasy genre.  I don’t necessarily object to them in principle and I enjoy plenty of fantasy genre films and video games.  It’s just that the fantasy genre for books almost always favours sprawling epics that take the author ...

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Rhea and Cameron’s Wedding

Over the weekend, Jen and I attended the wedding of our good friends Rhea and Cameron Proudlove. There was a wonderful service held at a chapel in Bardon followed by a reception at the Botannical Cafe in Mount Coo-Tha.  I was the Master of Ceremonies at the wedding which was a rather intense experience.  For all the public speaking I ...

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Esquire

For Jen’s birthday, I took her to one of Brisbane’s most decorated new restaurants.  Esquire’s head chef is Ryan Squires, formerly of Buffalo Club fame.  It’s been three years since we dined at Buffalo Club but it still rates highly for Jen and I as one of our favourite dining experiences so we eagerly awaited Squires’ new venture.  His food ...

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Lego Lord of the Rings: Gandalf Arrives 9469

To paraphrase Walter Sobchak, the beauty of the Gandalf Arrives set is its simplicity. This Lord of the Rings set is taken from one of the earliest scenes in the Fellowship of the Ring when Gandalf makes his return to The Shire.  The minifig for Gandalf looks awesome, his cart is made up of only a handful of pieces but ...

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