I may have been the only person in WA not to watch the AFL final – the only time we’ll ever have it in Perth – or will it be? – but even I joined in the festivities in Forrest Chase the day after, on my way to the gym. I think someone should do…
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Sep
I went op-shopping this weekend and bought this for two dollars: The chapters include ‘Training Techniques and Workouts’, ‘Strength Training’, ‘Eat for Health and Performance’ and ‘Mental Toughness’, but maybe a few others didn’t quite make it into the book…
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Sep
There used to be a Cold Rock Ice Creamery in Northbridge, directly on my walk home from the city. It’s now Red Rooster, so I have replaced one readily accessible naughty culinary indulgence with another. The nearest Cold Rock now is in Scarborough. Today, I got them to mix in extra cookie dough to the…
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Sep
Looking back, I’ve twice blogged about visiting Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester – the home of the Lancashire team – oops! – but I’ve never posted on going to Headingley Cricket Club in Leeds, Yorkshire, on the same trip when I was twenty-two. I do have Lancastrian ancestors, so maybe I’m subconsciously biased. Or…
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Aug
In the Canary Islands, drivers stopped for me when I used them. They didn’t in Argentina, unless they were at a set of traffic lights and had to stop anyway.
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Aug
It rained in Perth on 28 of July’s 31 days: the most since 1946. The total amount of rainfall was the most in July since 1995. Today, though, I took the train to Grant Street station, walked along Grant Street to North Cottesloe Beach, and on the sand or the footpath… … down to Leighton…
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Aug
It isn’t very often that you get a beautiful beach to yourself on a Saturday. But I did today at Smith’s Beach.
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Aug
