The Great Carrot Cake Valentines Day Deception
While we’re talking about Fly in Fly Out mining jobs….Years ago I went out with a Fly in Fly out mining exec, no surprise there after all I grew up in…
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Changes in the sandpit (Impact of the WA Mining Boom #1)
thanks fotologicIn the past the big boys in the world’s sandpit were content playing with each other, spending their days driving around in oversized trucks, occasionally crashing into each…
WA film More For Me wins Best Documentary at NYC International Film Festival
Some of you may recall a post about local father Lincoln Fenner who’s film More For Me, was entered into the New York City International Film Festival (NYCIFF) and being shown…
Mothers resolve beats interrogation
Junior MasterChef judge Anna Gare, recently alluded to a childhood dish called ‘shit on a plate’, which consisted of fried mince and tinned spaghetti on toast. Hardly surprising her mothers…
Staying in the dance of life after 911
My recent ash cloud experience gave me a minuscule glimpse into one aspect of 911, namely the phone calls made on the planes (Ash Cloud experience)Thanks to dixie-lawIn honour of…
A childhood of brown food proves no barrier to cookbook author Anna Gare (MasterChef)
On a beautiful spring-like day family and friends gathered on the Fremantle Arts Centre lawn, to help celebrity chef Anna Gare launch her first cookbook Homemade: simply delicious food. Interviewed…
Chilli Sex (Fremantle Chilli Festival)
In honour of Fathers Day I thought I’d let you into a little secret I recently discovered. Wandering around the Fremantle Chilli Festival, I stumbled across a little known fact….…
Monks versus HG Monaro (motoring)
Taking a break from Byron Bay for a moment…For the past six months there’s been a monotonous deep guttural tone bleeding out across my suburb. It starts at 10am and…
You know you’re in Byron Bay when…..(part 4)
Amanda asked whether Byron Bay had been taken over with fast food outlets. I can report back from the frontline that I didn’t see one revolving bucket, oversized hamburger, flattened…
You know you’re in Byron Bay when…..(part 3)
© The Ponder Room You notice a preponderance of bumper stickers offering alternatives to war and healing. Pulling up next to the Fear Doctor I read the good doctors promise of …‘all fears and phobias eliminated’. Transfixed I pondered ……
You know you’re in Byron Bay when…..(part 2)
The notion of a Pop Up Concept Store takes on a totally new meaning. It looked pretty popular but I did ponder about the change rooms. © The Ponder Room…
You know you’re in Byron Bay when…..(part 1)
There’s just way too much to say about Byron Bay in one post so instead you’ll be seeing a series of posts over the next few days.You know you’re in…
The World Moves In Mysterious Ways (Red Dog Movie Part 2)
By now you’ll know Red Dog is a story about a charismatic kelpie that charmed the north west of Western Australia, however you may not know how the film came…
How to ensure celebrities perform (Louis de Bernieres at Byron Bay Writers Festival)
While Louis de Bernieres, writer of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Birds Without Wings, and most recently Red Dog, discussed his love of creating ‘possible worlds’, the massive audience spilling out of…
Would you or wouldn’t you? (Byron Bay)
Over the past ten days my brain reached pondering capacity. If I’m honest the red warning light started flashing around day four, but like any good addict I ignored it…
What makes a good human? (A.C. Grayling)
The largely grey haired audience appeared uncomfortable as they waited to glimpse inside the brain of yet another colossal thinker brought to Perth by UWA Extension. This time it was…
What constitutes a child? (Motoring)
According to anyone born before the 1990’s it’s something to do with sugar, spice, slugs, snails or puppy dog tails if I remember correctly. I’m not sure if this would…
WA film More 4 Me lights up New York International Film Festival
“What’s the one thing you can’t live without?”We’ve all seen the footage of Cambodian children grasping tiny cups or new toothbrushes as tightly as other children fondle new bikes or computer consoles.…
