I was in Melbourne on Sunday and out of necessity/convenience I got the $1 cappuccino from 7-Eleven. I was pleasantly shocked. It wasn’t just acceptable, it was actually very good.
In contrast… The $3.40 cappuccino from the bakery in Busselton this morning… to call it ordinary would be doing it a favour.
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“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” (Jeff Kinney) – a book review by Lachlan Wetherall. This book has a misleading title. It should be titled “Diary of a Conceited, Conniving, Lying, Cheating, Lazy, Vindictive, Selfish Kid”.
Recommended reading for instructing your kids how not to behave.
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MasterChef. Gone. Good riddance. For all their hours in the kitchen there was only ever one meal produced – tripe.
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I watched Robert Redford’s 1994 movie “Quiz Show” last night. Great movie. The scene towards the end of the movie where the TV show execs and sponsors are denying all knowledge/responsibility of wrongdoing was eerily prescient of the response that Rupert and James Murdoch presented in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
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With the return of MasterChef I get to pull out, dust off, and expose to the daylight one of my favourite underused words of the English vocabulary:
turgid = inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic
It’s almost like they made MasterChef with the explicit purpose of illustrating the meaning of this word.
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I went and saw the Hans Heysen exhibition at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery today. Brilliant. I particularly loved his Flinders Ranges paintings, the way he captures on canvas the beauty of aridity.
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For an insightful and comedic analysis of America’s over-reaction to Wikilieaks check out the Colbert Report of Thursday 9th December – on iView.
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I’ve really been enjoying the TV series “Big, Bigger, Biggest” that’s been running on SBS on Saturday nights. It’s the almost perfect mix of engineering, history and gee-whizzery that manages to avoid the common pitfalls* of so many other documentaries of this genre. Tonight … Dams!
*Some of the pitfalls it avoids are:
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