http://youtu.be/eaw4Em6nVpU
Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
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http://youtu.be/eaw4Em6nVpU
I was going to say the Republic of Redcliffe. You’ve gone one better.
That was to Mack.
I’ve been very busy with drop-ins & stay-overs (aren’t they the worst?) but I just wanted to wish everyone here the best for 2018.
I’m hoping you get only good news healthwise JTI & you all take care of yourselves if you’re going out tonight.
I just may be the only person here who’s never in my life felt the need to indulge in drinking alcohol but each to their own I say.
I’ve enjoyed all our interactions immensely & while Jack will have me, I’ll be back next year. (Oh my, that’s tomorrow) haha 💚💚🐳🚢
TY Bella. Happy New Year.
On the subject of alcohol is a must…..
I rarely look at the NY Times, but did so this morning to see the article linking Alexander Downer with the Trump Russia investigation. Jason from Philadelphia posted a comment to make all Australians proud, and I quote.
Jason Philadelphia, PA 13 minutes ago
‘Let this be a lesson to us all –
NEVER attempt to out drink an Australian. Nothing good can come from it.’
Yes, alcohol is a must, JTI.
The both of you were looking fit and in good humour, Jack. Have to admit I think James went the better way with the dark beer. If you need a refreshment supplier for future videos consider one of my specials – I have a home-brewed stout done specially for New Year that would just knock your socks off! If you want to get a bit more esoteric, Eccles is a producer of mead and his thoughts on using a certain ingredient containing ions to produce heavy molecule chains as a fining mechanism is one of the more interesting brewing discussions I ever had.
Got mates visiting for NY and also working over the period so if I don’t get on again before the end of tomorrow, Happy New Year to all the denizens of Jack’s bar! And to our host, again, thanks mate for your patience and good humour and I have all digits crossed that 2018 brings you the best possible news.
Cheers!
HNY, TBLS. I never drink dark beer. It’s poison.
Happy New Year to you Jack and to all on this blog,
cheers
Likewuse, mate. I’ll be in touch shortly.
BRADMAN-draw=Smith extend the game to get a result…give the people value for their hard-earned. Poms copped three bad decisions. Its not cricket. Crap pitch. Nothing in it for bowlers busting their balls. and backs. SAD CAFE.
Goodness Bassman at that rate you’ll become my favourite aunt.
FFS Bassy, they could have reviewed the LB’s and they didn’t. Put a sock in it. Happy New Year.
cant stomach player reviews meself….let the umpires crack on using the tech.
HNY
Jack tI – by the sound of it Jack you could sashay a good deal of the way through south east asia and be sorted for a bed and beer. Not a bad gig chief!
Yes. Sounds great. Just finding the time is the probem.
Too true, Jack. As much as I am ocd re this blog; I love it, but if this was just one part of your time problem i’d bet the regulars on here would be cool , and happy, for you to give us a miss. And i’d take over in the break heheheh….
We’ll see. It will be down for some time but I can’t say when. For now, we shall carry on.
We do have the internet in Asia.
What about traffic lights?
Yes, but pointless for many.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRyH6fkee0
I think I’ll have to kill you Gryzly, I had that bloody “song” going around in my head for hours….
I’ll fix that one for you Penny. From the same album (Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Record), have a listen to ‘Here Comes Another One’.
You actually looked like you were forcing it down Jack. Kind of like a kid that had too much pudding, and it was coming back up, swimming behind your eyes. You definitely didnt like the taste of that last mouthful. Me, I cant drink no more since the surgery (sob). One large glass of white wine put me to bed a dribbling mess, and then I was sick. No fun at all. So, I guess Im never going to be in the right frame of mind to judge which was the biggest liability of 2017, too sober. Someone slap me… I need the kick!
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Speaking of me being no fun…
@ BASSMAN
Thanks for your thoughts on my last post. I wasnt trying to look like a grinch, or to have a Christmas cry, its just, not everyone cops wine and roses all the time, Bill just trod on my toes I suppose (sorry Bill for biting). Happy New Year to you and your crib, and all who live in it! You’re one of the best Bassy!
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The Gongs are being handed out, Mr Insider and “arise Sir Barry and Sir Ringo”. No Gongs for Australia of course since we dropped them, despite crazy Tony Abbott reintroducing them in 2014 when he ” gonged ” Prince Phillip much to the disbelief and merriment of Australians. I do note in recent years Abbott has been refused an audience with Her Majesty.
https://tinyurl.com/y7jcl9pa
P.S. in case anyone was wondering about Aussie Barry Gibbs nationality he is a dual British Citizen having been born on the Isle of Man. He also became a US Citizen in 2009.
He is also a citizen of the Republic of Coochiemudlo, 10 minutes from Victoria Point on the ferry.
Is that right Mack, him having a shack over there?
That’s where the Gibbs lived when little tackers. Straight from ‘Ole Blighty to the mossies and sand-flies!
I think it was actually the now disappeared Cribb Island they grew up on Mack.
Noticed in Wiki they mention the Gibbs living in Redcliffe. Info I had was from a guy I used to work with who was in the music biz (sound engineer) who shared a house with BG and others, Ronnie Burns and sometimes Billy Thorpe in Sydney, circa late 60’s early 70’s. That would have been an interesting share house!
Trouble with the internet, what does one believe? When checking out the BG and Ronnie Burns connection, Google showed a photo of Ronnie Van Zant and Lynyrd Skynyrd with the caption – Ronnie Burns – singer! Not once, but several times.
Damn internet, can’t rely on it to jar fuzzy memories!
Seriously though, when you look at what Barry Gibb, and his brothers, achieved it is a pretty amazing body of work, not only recordings, but songwriting credits as well. The list of stars who recorded his songs is amazing, everyone from Andy Williams to Diana Ross, Michael Jackson to Janis Joplin. Amazing don’t really cover it, BG has been a very busy lad for a lot of years.
There may be some confusion. The Gibbs lived on Cribb Island, a sleepy, down-at-heel fishing village on the shore of Moreton Bay, 10km NE of Brisbane CBD, before they moved to Redcliffe. Cribb Island was completely resumed for the Brisbane runway extensions, and the community moved out en masse in 1980. Only the pier and the stumps of a few houses remain.
To supplement the coins they earned busking nightly outside the local store on Cribb, the Gibbs were avid gatherers and vendors of Marphysa mullawa, the Cribb Island Bloodworm, reputed to be the finest bait available for bream and whiting. It may now be extinct.
I can confirm you can still get them Wiss! Bloody great bait for big whiting.
Arse about face. Just checked and they lived at Redcliffe, first in Scarborough and then Wood End, and attended Humpybong SS before moving to Cribb Island. There they lived there in Jackson’s Estate, an abandoned banana plantation. The man who discovered them, radio 4BH’s Bill Gates is still alive, now 85. The Cribb Island Bloodworm was last recorded in 2003, so also still may be alive.
Link State Library of Queensland
http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2016/08/23/slq-acquires-australias-largest-collection-of-bee-gees-recordings-and-memorabilia/
Second photo in this gallery is the Gibbs at Cribb Island about 1960
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/image-gallery/97484d5f759ef6dca22e21d9c3e04628
Re the achievements of the Bee Gees, so many people seem to think they were a disco band only, who came and went with it. They’d had a massive career before Barry White was even born! (OK, hyperbole but you know what I mean.) They even sang in a normal range. Unbelievably talented.
Or a Stone & Wood?
Bloody brilliant clip to finish JTI. Wish I was there!
Now the Guinness looked great but whatever you were drinking looked a bit cloudy. A wheat beer?
Coopers Pale. Not my preferred sip but in many of these inner city pubs, they don’t have Carlton or a New. Disgraceful.
I noticed the Guiness was distinctly lacking head. Something we are all made to suffer from time to time I suppose……..
It wasn’t Guinness. Some old, dark micro brewed beer with sticks and leaves floating in it. Eugh.
I’m afraid I love dark beers Jack. The stronger and more floaties the better. A Scottish dark ale coming in about 10% to 12% is a good way to get a party going!
Never liked dark beers myself until a mate started brewing Black Stump stout, absolutely beautiful, couldn’t get enough of the stuff. Then the council hooked him up to town water and he emptied his rainwater tanks, the beer was absolutely disgusting with the treated water, couldn’t come at it.