Swanning Around.. And I’m Not Talking Football

[bushwalker]

But since I mentioned football in the intro I must say it was a nice grand final moment to watch the finals on TV while we were at the Footscray market and feel the universal appeal of our sport as the people of the world inclined their eyes to the screen as they pondered the relative merits the pile of fruit and veg

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[flemmarde]

i have read a bit about the latham saga on "the australian" website and it sounds pretty dramatic, although i do feel i've missed out of the feel of the drama there. i don't know if i could cope with being even more despairing about the state of the alp at the moment! howard must be smirking like crazy.

i hope wallace and gromit comes here or i shall have to pressure people to send me a pirate dvd! can't wait to see it. i so loved the one with the evil penguin and his black little black beady eyes.

[bushwalker]

They did a Wallace and Grommit festival on ABC kids in the lead up to the movie and they showed those 3 films and I have been looking for the DVD since then but I haven't found it yet. That penguin was up there with Hannibal Lecter wasn't he

[flemmarde]

oh it sounds like such a seething pit of dreadful stuff and there's no one there to pull it together. do a post on it... for me! i'm so out of touch with it all. those libs have been unaccountable for years now. what a dark period of australian political history.

[bushwalker]

Yeah a week doesn't go by without at least one invitation to something. I shall be seriously miffed if you don't include us in your itinerary. Bring Simon too. How can you not include the pleasures of Melbourne in your R&R?