Tag Archives: Brisbane

We may not be spending Christmas in Brisbane this year but over the past fortnight, we’ve been busy catching up with as many friends as we can.  We’ve been going to Christmas Carols, visiting the crazy house in north-side that wins the Christmas Lights competition every year, making Christmas treats with our friends and generally getting into the spirit of ...

We had an absolutely massive storm in Brisbane today.  A gigantic, Biblical-scale, thunder bolts and lightning, rain falling upwards and sideways type storm. It’s absolutely terrible timing.  Tomorrow is Harvest Festival.  Nothing like going to an all-day outdoor festival in torrential weather.  The funny thing is that this is Jen’s second ever festival and the last time we went…same thing.

This looks ominous.

“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 ...

Retired England cricketer Ian Botham turned up at Suncorp to show his support for the Brisbane Roar on Saturday. This week we had a local derby against the underwhelming North Queensland Fury.  It’s only the Fury’s second season in the A-League.  In their opening season they signed up God to play as their striker.  He worked out pretty well for ...

So there was a big ‘dust storm’ that settled over Brisbane today, engulfing the city in an orangey-red hue for most of the day.  It was pretty sweet.  I have no idea what would cause this phenomena but it made everything look cooler and apocalyptic. I also have a far more favourable view of this weather than some of my ...