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 ...

The Brisbane Roar visited Blue Tongue Stadium in Gosford for a clash against the third placed Central Coast Mariners for Round 26 but more on that in a second. The flooding in Queensland in the past two days has had a disasterous impact on the whole of Brisbane and Suncorp Stadium has been no different.  The pitch is shoulder deep ...

Ahh, Dick Cheney.  Years from now we can all tell our grandkids about how we spent our time from 2001 to 2008 getting mad about this platinum grade arsehole who seemed to make it his mission to ruin the world as much as he could during his time as the Vice President of America.  If you thought you had exhausted ...

Last night, before Brisbane got demolished by Stormageddon, I went to the cinema and saw Tangled.  When the trailers for the film were being aired in December, Jen pointed out to me that the character Flynn had a bit of a resemblance to Matt.  It became one of those annoying things that I couldn’t unsee when I watched the film ...

The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

“Never have I seen such horrible weather.  Here’s to 2011 being an improvement.  I can’t see how it could be any worse.” – Me, when I blogged 11 days ago. These are some pictures from Queensland in the past 24 hours which has been hit with severe flooding across 75% of its populated areas.  The whole city came to a ...

I made a JIS video from the footage I had from July 2000. Let me know what you think. Have two more to come. One of ISB which will be much longer and some salt monkeys / new years 2000 as well. Edo – you will very much look forward to the new years footage! Give me until the weekend ...

So upon returning to the UK, my girlfriend asked “Do you have any resolutions for this year?”, to which I answered “Yup. Blog more.” – This is my first post. It is the tenth. If I carry on at this blistering rate then this year will see an astounding 35 posts. Man, resolutioning is easy. My first blog is a ...