Random thoughts and observations
We ran a photo in the Kalgoorlie Miner of international bog snorkeller Julia Galvin (pictured in a bog), who was visiting town, astride the statue of Paddy Hannan complete with snorkel and mud. I had never heard of bog snorkelling until yesterday, but apparently it’s quite big in Wales. The “sport” involves competitors completing two [...]
The Kalgoorlie Miner this morning exposed a scam in which foreigners are selling “original” artworks door to door. Young people, believed to be Israeli or Iraqi (odd mix), claim to be art students earning a living. I’ve personally had two different sellers knock on my door in the past six months.
Andrew Symonds shoulder charged a streaker at the Gabba tonight in a bone-jarring tackle more reminiscent of rugby than cricket. It will send the otherwise ho-hum, yawn pitch invasion into the realms of sporting folklore. And let’s face it, a photograph or video footage is necessary to make a streak memorable. There was a female [...]
Overseas readers will be interested to know the story reported in the Cairns Post of a monster python stalking and devouring a family’s pet dog. Daniel Peric said he now would not leave his two children, aged five and seven, alone in any part of the house, after the “enormous” python ate his silky terrier-cross [...]
I’ll think twice before I ever complain about slow service in a restaurant after reading this report in The Age: “A restaurateur has been jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of a patron who complained about slow service. After a fight broke out at the Bon Mua restaurant and karaoke bar, co-owner and chef [...]
