Rum & Dal

We did it!  Would you adam and eve it?  Took us 3 seasons, we took it to the finals and won 6-4 against the Orange Meanies.  Well done to the regular team - Richard (captain), Jamie, Erwin, Luke, Wilson and Dal.  Thanks also to Rum, Rathan, Andrea, Amanda, Ben and Zach who pitched in when we needed you.  It was an excellent season, with a great finale, nail biting and action packed!

We went into the second half with a 3-0 lead and one injury to Andrea (not including Dal who was already injured).  Orange Meanies came levelling it to 3-3! Rathan and Andrea pulled of some beautiful goals and when the final whistle blew it was 6-4.  The last 4 mintues were the longest ever, standing on the side line! Goal and player of the match goes to Andrea.  Well done Troubled Strangers… lets get it on for next season.

Our Player Manager Jade could not be with us this season but she kept a watch with her MSN team talk :)  It was much appreciated! This ones for you Jade. “They think its all over.  It is now!”

The waiting is over.  Dal is now the proud owner of Guitar Hero World Tour.  What have I let myself in for?

It’s been18 months now since Dal has been strumming on her guitar playing GH2 & GH3.  Since then Rock Band has come and gone, Rock Band was never released in Australia but then it was always going to be second best compared to the original Guitar Hero brand.

Costing $278 (£120) yeah believe it or not is actually cheaper here than the UK.  Its not a bad investment.  The package contains the game, a shiny new wireless guitar with more features than the original, microphone (all we need is a wanna be Bon Jovi) and an electronic drum kit.

This game is selling like hot cakes, I phoned around 12 different vendors this afternoon, they were all out of stock and didn’t know when the new stock would be in.  Perserverance paid off and I found GH World Tour at my local BigW.  We had to get this ready for chrismas holidays so we can play in our cinema room and pump some tunes through our new system.  Forget summer concerts at Hyde Park, not when you got the Nahals at Craigieburn.  Enjoy Dal, the smile on her face said it all.  Looks like i’ll be doing the cooking over the next few weeks

A big Happy Birthday to Pal and Surj

Today Pal is celebrating his 25th Birthday with his whiskey bottle and Little Surj, who is barely off the starting line, is celebrating his 3rd with no doubt his own favourite bottle.  Cheers to you both have a good one, wishing we were there for the fun.

Beautiful sunny day, started off with an appointment in St Kilda.  All went ok until we left the building… the parking cost of $24 for only three hours!  You can just imagine how much it hurt the old wallet!

Anyway, moving on with the day we decided to take the rest of the day off work and take a trip to Hoppers Crossing to again look for furniture and ideas for the house.  Merrily going down the Princess Highway at 90kph in the 4th lane.  All of a sudden I realise the accelerator isn’t doing anything.  PANIC! On momnetum alone manage to get the car to the left lane but just missing the slip road by a couple of meters which would have taken me to a service station - damn! “Do we have breakdown cover?” I ask Rum.  “No” he says - damn, damn! “Who do we call?” I say. “Ghostbusters”, he says - damn, damn, damn! So we get out and go to the service station, get the number for RACV (Victoria’s Roadside Recovery), and call them up.  As we don’t have membership we are in the middle of processing this and the phone cuts out! Back to the service station to get more credit for the phone… back on the phone to RACV.  Incidentally, in the UK the first thing the RAC ask you is your mobile number, even before your name, just incase you do get cut off, they ring you back.  Now thats service!

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So we’ve been in Melbourne for 16 months and are yet to have ourselves decent fish n chips.
The quest started a week after we landed here, many chippies were sampled but always failed scoring 1/5. Main reason for the rejection was the batter quality and the use of frozen chips with lemon as apposed to salt and finger. Criminal offence.

Us Brits have a set criteria when we’re abroad, alcohol, tea, fish n chips and someone who appreciates the British sense of humour.

Our dear friends Kate and Gerald, who are born again Brits from East London were very exited when telling us about there experience at a fish n chip shop that they came across in Brighton. (Melbourne also has a Brighton not quite as forward and extravagant, if you know what I mean

So to set the scene… it was a beautiful sunny day, Dal and I walked down to the station to meet Kate and G. We were early so we ducked into the near by pub (Young and Jackson) for a quick pint, as you do and were soon in the mood for a greasy fish n chip, lovely jubbly.

Took the train down to Brighton, if it wasn’t a Sunday Dal and I would have taken our hip flasks, oh well next time. Once in Brighton Kate took us to the chippy via the scenic route, Beautiful houses, lovely lush gardens, automatic gates, definitely dream homes for us.

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Got there eventually.

Well it’s been over a year so we thought we would update the blog theme, something different for the eye.  However we had problems installing and uploading the new wordpress software.  At one point the website stopped working and fell apart, those of you who visit regulary would know this.

We used firefox FTP to upload wordpress rather than the FTP software that came with Windows Vista.  I would recommend not to use the windows FTP as it just doesn’t have the bells and whistles and is a lot slower causing timeout issues.

Now we have wordpress working we are experimenting with various themes.  We have chosen Abstract Green Waves though we just need to tweak it.  Dal and I don’t quite have the know how but were learning slowly.

Bye for now, lets see what else we can tweak