The fog finally lifted in San Francisco so we only arrived ninety minutes late at SFO. I write this after having sat on our San Francisco to Seoul flight for six hours. We now only have to sit for six more. Bret is entertaining himself listening to the sixth Harry Potter book. […]

My Favourite Soccer Teams , Manchester United and Arsenal are playing their respective matches tonight!
11pm and 1.15am tonight, gonna miss some sleep

Today is Day 7 of 7 of the 7 days experiment
the day isn’t finished yet! So I will be giving my summary of the results later. *winks*
So what can a person accomplish […]

Australia is a prosperous country with a GDP per capita a little higher than UK, Germany and France. Australia ranked at number third in the United Nations in 2007 for Human Development Index and at the number six as the Economist for quality life in 2005. The economic system of the country is western mixed […]

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photo Credit - Filip, originally uploaded by Mic2006.

This photo is of one of the most dynamic photo bloggers that I know - Filip - he has just come back from a trip to Australia […]

Greetings all
Firstly, a clarification: I have received more than one email claiming that my last post entitled “To make a long story short” did not do exactly what it said on the tin. In my defence, I shall state two things:
1. I crammed about 2 weeks of travelling antics into one blog (others like Fraser […]

Today I received a copy of The Australian Writer’s Marketplace 2007/08 from my favourite bookshop in the world, Gleebooks. (When you order you get a personal email to thank you and tell you it’s in the mail!)
Here it is:
So, I’m very happily flicking through it, through the lists of magazines, journals, newspapers, […]

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to announce the winners of our NYC Rock ‘n’ Roll contest: Beth Dekoker (her entry: “Over 40, a mom and still rockin!”) and Peter Randell (his entry: “My old punk tee is used to wash the car”). Just to recap, we are giving away 2 free T-shirts for answering one […]

We arrived in Sydney on Wednesday afternoon and were greeted with open arms at the airport by Valerie and Gerrard (Valerie is the sister of Stuart who is Sarah’s Mum’s boyfriend!) who very kindly said we could stay with them for our week’s stay in Sydney.
Not wasting any time, off we went for the best […]

Last month closed with some far from comforting news about the state of the US housing market (sales and prices still falling), US financial institutions (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in need of rescue), Australian banks (NAB’s 90% write-down of its US CDO portfolio). Then ABS figures showed that retail sales had fallen “unexpectedly” by […]