Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Endeavour departs














This is the Endeavour replica leaving Adelaide, photographed by my friend Jose. She's aided and abetted by a pair of very modern engines - in the old days the original ship couldn't go anywhere without a wind.

Bon voyage! Adios! See you next time!

Sense at last!

I was listening innocently to Classic FM today when I heard David Gillespie talking clear common sense at last about the overweight epidemic that has the health systems of affluent countries on their knees. I had long ago decided that there's nothing wrong with eggs, butter and animal fat - we've been eating them for thousands of years, unlike that revolting invention called margarine, and canola oil, the petrol substitute that is now being grown instead of other genuinely nutritious crops.
When I googled him I found suspiciously little about him (he is after all just a lawyer, not a nutritionist or a doctor, or even a food producer with a vested interest in marketing certain products), apart from this site:
I suggest that if you've tried everything else, try cutting out sugar. The strongest message was his opening statement - that on average we used to consume 2kgs of sugar per year - now we consume 50kg per year.

Thursday, March 15, 2012


well I'm not too good at keeping up this blog, but I could say that's because I'm too busy... have been trying my hand at recording fringe reviews for Radio Adelaide, which is totally new and has nothing to do with what Black Dog considers is my real job, i.e. carving her image in blocks of wood and taking her for walks by the sea. She was also highly insulted when I forsook her company for three nights and spent them shipkeeping on the Endeavour replica in Port Adelaide. A wonderful experience, it's a shame they don't let dogs on board. This is what part of her (the ship) looks like in the dark.

No, I didn't have to climb the rigging, but I had my first experience of sleeping in a hammock, and did reasonably well.