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With all this time spent on holiday in Scotland, catching up with friends back in Brisbane and going back to work where I’ve got to prep for a week of back-to-back conferences, who has time for video games? I finally found myself with a couple of hours spare tonight to sit down and get stuck into some games that I ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQWzanM8zHk&feature=related[/youtube] Skip forward to 2 min 33 seconds for Harry.

We’ve had some friends recommend that we get onto Grays Online, an Australian auction site, for a while now and this weekend Jen and I finally got on the bandwagon.  12 bottles of Hope Estate, which normally retails for $38 a bottle, ours for the princely sum of $7.42.  Soooo good. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Now that I’ve finished off Stephen King’s Under the Dome I’m now going to head in a completely different direction for my next book.  Next up is Tim Park’s football journal A Season With Verona which details the British author’s experience of spending a season following the club Hellas Verona and its supporters. I can’t say I know much about ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MmCanaLQGE[/youtube] Soooo good. Episode One airs on Halloween.  Not long to go now.  🙂

83% of Australians didn’t believe Labor deserved to be in government. However, 52% said it was better than the alternative. – Galaxy Poll taken late in the campaign “In terms of running the campaign, decisions are made by a small group of people who quite frankly just operated on political cliches.” – Alannah McTiernan, recently retired Labor MP referring to ...

I’m back in Brisbane after a near-four week holiday.  It’s back to work today.  The apartment also needs a to have a bit of tidying.  There’s laundry that needs doing.  *Sigh* I’ll be blogging about Scotland and Malaysia in due course.  It was a pretty sweet holiday though.  Here’s a sampler of some of the stuff we got up to.

Good news finally decided to get in touch with me… So I invited him in and made him tea. Along with several birthdays (including Edo’s and mine), July brought with it a month of interning at a publishing company here in London, who specialise in in-flight publications. The work was good, and after my month long stint I was offered to ...

It has been a long time since I last picked up a book and was instantly hooked. But after the reading the very first line of Craig Clevenger’s 2003 debut The Contorionist’s Handbook that was exactly the case. The story introduces you to John Dolan Vincent, a man born with an extra finger on his left hand. Not only does he struggle ...

Okay everyone, me and Jen are hitting the trail and heading off on our holiday for the next four weeks.  We’re doing Edinburgh, London and Kota Kinabalu in that order.  Feel free to hit me up on Facebook if you think you’ll be free to catch up anywhere amongst that.