Rear Window Melbourne style
Sometimes it pays to look beyond the usual rush of the day.© The Ponder RoomA quick glance out the window confirms that the clock has indeed ticked past 6pm. Parallel…
Browsing: Travel
He’s alive and well and living in Melbourne
For years now I thought he was gone. Every now and then I’d look around in the feeble hope of spotting him, but I hadn’t seen him anywhere. About 5…
ANZAC Day 2011
As a Kiwi living in Australia…. © The Ponder RoomWaking to a crisp blue ANZAC dawn, and seeing 5 biplanes flying over head, it’s very easy to give thanks…
Playing Tennis With God (Motoring #3)
This article first appeared in Mazda MX5 Magazine.Last year someone or something had really upset God. Maybe he’d heard that Australian criminals were being glorified in yet another Underbelly series,…
Damien Hobgoods early chances pay off in Telstra Drug Aware Pro 2011 Margaret River
In the end the final came down to US born Damien Hobgood and a local West Australian. © The Ponder Room But that local was Yadin Nicol, not Taj Burrow…
Grey fins & the Kelly Slater, Billy Stairmand battle at Telstra Drug Aware Pro Margaret River
Today the Margart River surf looks cleaner, so clean infact that this morning grey fins were seen in the water while Paige Hareb and Courtney Conlogue competed. Thankfully they were only dolphins enjoying…
Billy Stairmand takes out Kelly Slater in Margaret River (Telstra Drug Aware Pro)
Breaking news21 year old Billy Stairmand from New Zealand rode a perfect wave scoring 9.0. In that one moment he not only created the upset of the event, but also gave…
Slater surfs it up at Margaret River (2011 Telstra Drug Aware Pro)
© The Ponder Room It’s not often the biggest names in sport come to your backyard, especially when that backyard is the most isolated city in the world. The…
20 Hour Personal Best At Perth Writers Festival
3 days, 20 one hour sessions attended out of a possible 24, a personal best of 83%!© The Ponder Room © The Ponder RoomAfter three days, the voices of so many brilliant authors are…
The Lifeboats Won! (Central Tafe graduates win Sculpture by the Sea)
They won!!!© The Ponder RoomThe local team of Central Tafe graduates Marwa Fahmy, Kate Parker, Emma Danks, Elizabeth Marpole and Stephen Genovese took out the overall prize in this years…
Cottesloe Beach gets 1,697 lifeboats (Central Tafe graduates in Sculpture by the Sea)
Lifeboats, a device to prolong life when one finds oneself all at sea. Lifeboats © The Ponder RoomThe Queen Mary has 20, a Rottnest Ferry between 2 and 6, but…
Bondi Vet & Bondi Rescue in Rottnest Swim
Dean Gladstone Bondi Rescue © The Ponder RoomFootnote: Okay for those who asked…The team of Bondi Vet (Chris Brown) and Bondi Rescue (Ryan Clarke, Dean Gladstone and Bruce Hopkins) came…
Rottnest Swim Hidden Obstacles e.g. Premier Colin Barnett’s horn
Sitting in oppressive, misty darkness, at the start of the 2011 Rottnest Swim I was surprised by the number of hidden obstacles I witnessed. While some hindrances are very well publicized,…
Do you want a hug from our ex-Prime Minister with that burger?
Told you the Gimme Shelter gig was a loving space. Even the Snack Vans’ harsh florescent lighting couldn’t destroy the mood. © The Ponder RoomYou’ve got to love a country…
Surf Surprise
copyright The Ponder Room Sometimes life doesn’t give you much to ponder about….other times it gives you so much your head hurts.Usually though if you make the effort to…
Waitangi Day, what’s in a name?
Waitangi Day commemorates the Treaty of Waitangi signed on Feb 6th 1840, when New Zealand became part of the British Empire. In 1972 a bill was passed to change the…
A Shared Dream On Australia Day
‘We are one but we are many, and from all the lands on earth we come, we share a dream and sing in one voice, I am, you are, we…
Premature Patriotism
copyright The Ponder RoomThe air is getting thicker, the minutes struggling to tick by. National pride is oozing from streets, supermarkets, and grey office cubicles. There’s an epidemic of lamingtons,…
