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Road Trip – Part 3
Take the phone off the hook, light some candles and slip into something silky as we embark on the final, magical chapter of – ‘Road Trip – Highway to Hotpants’. Please remember to extinguish all candles after reading as they can be a fire hazard. We roared into Phillip Island in the early evening, looking […]
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Tags: Bogans, Churchill Island Heritage Fram, Koala Conservation Sanctuary, Koala facts, Little Penguins, Melbourne, Penguin Parade, Phillip Island, Road Trip
Road Trip – Part 2
Welcome back to part two of what the internet community is already calling ‘another blog about a road trip’. But enough about me, babes. Sooooo spill, what’s the latest goss with you? Fair enough, I’ll crack on then. We rolled into The Dandenongs (a range of low mountains and sweeping hills named after a largely […]
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Road Trip – Part 1
Before leaving Melbourne for good, we decided to take a road trip to the more rural outskirts as a final huzzah. We hotwired a motor (sort of) and headed for destination number one – Healesville, famous for its Wineries and sense of whimsy. Having arrived at our first Vineyard of the day, we took a […]
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Melbourne Zoo is worth a visit. You can read an even more comprehensive guide here. This is a video of me performing what could almost be described as a magic trick in an effort to impress the penguins. To enhance the illusion I would suggest blinking repeatedly throughout.
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Tags: coin trick, Melbourne zoo, Messiah vanish, street magic
Melbourne Victory vs Gold Coast
Steve, James, Eddie and myself arranged to watch a football match between Melbourne Victory and Gold Coast. It was a rather tense affair with nobody quite knowing which way things would go but eventually I decided to wear my lightly striped jumper with navy slacks and we set off. The game was played in the […]
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Tags: Ethiad Stadium, football stdium, Melbourne pots, Melbourne Victiry, Melbourne Victory vs Gold Coast
Bloggin’ About me Noggin’
One evening last week, I went to the fridge to get myself a lovely bit of naughty Lindt chocolate beer. I crouched down on my haunches, found the deliciously indulgent chunks of caramel heaven beer and stood up sharply. I didn’t get very far with this audacious standing up plan as my skull immediately cracked […]
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Tags: concussion, headaches, Leo Sayer, Melbourne, NHS Direct, noggin
Big Dogg Loose in Melbourne
This week we have been joined on our adventurin’ by Susie’s brother Steve (or ‘Big Dogg Stevie Aitch’ as he prefers to be called). After arriving from the UK, Steve caught the Skybus to Melbourne’s city centre where an official welcoming committee had convened which consisted of myself (hello) and Susie. As Steve stepped off […]
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Fun Times in Fitzroy
As my loyal, regular readership fan base (hi mum) will know, we moved into an apartment in Fitzroy about two weeks ago. It’s a converted warehouse on the third floor of what used to be a furniture store back in the early 1900’s. A little bit of online detective work uncovered a photo of the […]
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Creativity and a kind of inspired joie de vivre seeps from every pore of this Melbourne Metropolis like a computer graphic in a Clearasil ad. Although some areas are more ‘happenin’ (youth speak alert) than others, not one block remains untouched by some kind of art or individual expressivivocity. I think this is best summed […]
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Tags: Laneways, location independent, Melbourne Laneways, moustache, Movida, Ray Meagher, Tapas
What Would David Vine Do?
Australia has been our home now for 12 days so we felt is was about time we met up with some fellow Brits to reminisce about the Old Country. We signed up online to a group of ex-pats at http://www.meetup.com. They planned to go Bowling and have a few drinks and we arranged to go […]
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