You’ll need to click on the image above to see the full sized version and to read the program listings. This is an actual scan of a TV Guide issue dated May 8, 1976. TV Guide was an Adelaide-only magazine that competed with the national magazines – TV Week and TV Times. It was smaller, [...]
A brief sojourn in Adelaide.
I’m back from spending the weekend in Adelaide. it was my Dad’s birthday and I wanted to go out with him and my brother. Unbeknowns to me, my niece and her partner were also in town and staying at Dad’s place. So it was a great family lunch at a nearby pub with a couple [...]
Balfours Boys
Yoda and I braved the crowds at the post-Christmas sales in Rundle Mall today. I got a couple of shirts for work and a fun new hat to protect my delicate dome from the intense Adelaide sunshine. Yoda bought some bright T-Shirts and shorts for his upcoming cruise. Yoda will be cruising around Western Australia [...]
Christmas in Adelaide beckons….
…and what do you suppose my mind is on? Family? Friends? Presents? Well, yes of course but there’s a little piggy inside JudgeG that’s crying out ‘BALFOURS! PIG OUT!!!’ Sure they might have twelve-step programs and Betty Ford Clinics for detoxing from alcoholism, drugs and so on…but I can’t see they’re ever going to be [...]
Adelaide, September 2009 – a bit of self indulgence
I recently went back home to Adelaide for Father’s Day. For some reason I walked around town randomly snapping off shots with my digital camera. Shots of places I remember from when I used to live there, places that meant something to me and places/things that have changed since I moved away. There’s also a [...]
How old are you?
I might have been a toddler and then a primary schooler back in the 1960s but there are still early memories I remember vividly. Songs that have stuck with me for around 40 years. And certainly a few that were special to my Mum and also resonated with me. Although we didn’t have the word [...]
You have to pay for a cream puff in Adelaide?
Honey, I live in Sydney – we have more cream puffs than you’ll ever see in a bakery. This sign from King William Street, Adelaide – from a shop with the strange name of ‘Beard Papa’ – really took my fancy on the weekend. ‘Cream Puff’ is another way of saying ‘Gay’ – or even [...]
Still a Balfours boy
It’s all a bit sad. Here I was copying this video to DVD so I could then transfer it to my computer and import it into Windows Movie Maker to edit it. And I started crying. Again. Goddamn it! more about "Balfours TV advert on Flickr – Photo …", posted with vodpod This bloody TV [...]
