FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD

Cupcakes in the office for Lucy's birthday

and the cafe near our office has new owners and finally some edible food, seeing as it's the week for burger challenges I gave it a go

yep, the diet coke was to make me feel good about eating THAT burger

THE HOOD # 130

I get that it's meant to be pixels right? I just don't get what it's meant to be, shape wise, ya know?

MAGNITED STATES OF AMERICA

One of life's annoying things is definitely people who use their phones when they're in a cinema. Come on peeps try and live without your phone for 90 minutes cos the light from your phone really is distracting and it pisses people off. Pretty sure cinemas here don't enforce a no texting rule but this little theatre in Austin Texas sure does. This is brilliant, but a major language warning if you're watching this at work or don't like the term fucking asshole....

We do not tolerate people that talk or text in the theater. In fact, before every film, we have several warnings on screen to prevent such happenings. Occasionally, someone doesn't follow the rules, and we do, in fact, kick their asses out of our theater. This video is an actual voicemail from a woman that was kicked out of one of our Austin theaters. Thanks, anonymous woman, for being awesome.

ROAD TRIPPIN PT 3 - THE RUN HOME

Up nice and early on Sunday morning, all the paddocks near Corrigin were covered in dew and the new born lambs were all huddled in small groups for warmth, time to head back to the smelly city. I decided to go a different way back and cut through York, Northam and Toodyay. All old historical towns for those non west aussies amongst you. Was taking things pretty slowly as I was really not in a rush to get back home, loving the country at the mo.

As I headed out of Corrigin I noticed a break in the clouds and a single tree on the hill

Funky corner store in Quairading

York has the best Town Hall, even if the clock doesn't work

Once I hit Northam I took a quick drive through as I hadn't been there for over 10 years. Straight away I spotted the Library building and figured it had to be an Iwan Iwanoff design, I was right too, he designed the best buildings. His houses in the city fetch a small fortune at auction these days

Then I was home

ONE TREE HILL

A little update over at YeLPanorama

ROAD TRIPPIN PT 2

Once I'd spent an hour and a bit wandering around the rst of Wave Rock I figured I better think about somewhere to stay for the night. I checked out what was on offer at the rock itself and it was pretty over priced and frankly boring. So I decided to head back the way I came and check out the motels I'd passed on the way down. First stop was Kondinin and the motel attached to the Golden Fleece station (see pic above) but it looked pretty dodgy, so I kicked on to Corrigin. There was a cool looking 6o's style place on the main road. Pulled in and grabbed a room for half the price of Wave Rock.

I had some very funky tiles in my bathroom, the rest of the room was pretty boring

The owner was a pretty laid back dude, "Well ya parked in front of room 4 so ya might as well take 4 then" Sounded perfectly reasonable to me. "Bit quiet this weekend, I'm just waitin on 4 bikies" Oh, okay, well um cool. "Well you know, not actual bikies just some old farts on bikes" I think he meant like that Travolta movie Wild Hogs, when they rolled in an hour later he was pretty much on the money with that description. "If you're lookin for a good feed head down to the Corrigin Hotel and give em this card and they'll give ya a free beer. Sounded pretty good to me.

The Corrigin Hotel

I was feeling pretty hungry around 6pm so I cruised down to the pub to see what they had on offer and to play with the camera apps on my phone it seems. Nice old corner pub with two bars and an outdoor area, probably no more than 20 customers and the standard European back packer barmaids. The menu had the usual suspects, steak done this way and that way, fish grilled or fried and a chicken curry special etc etc. I decided on the Hotel House Burger....

Check out the size of that thing! This baby had a 3 cm thick beef patty, a piece of steak folded in half and two slices of bacon, oh and beetroot, tomato, cheese and lettuce. God knows how many calories it held within it's meaty edges but I could feel my arteries exploding whilst I stared at it. No way could I eat that, I like meat but jeebus. Then I noticed a few of the locals watching my reaction and I started to get the "Will the city boy flinch" vibe. So folks, I took one for the team, can't let those country types look down at us weak city types now can we? To be honest I managed the patty and salad and the bun, half the steak and none of the bacon. Oh and it was semi bordered with a pile of beer battered chips. One hell of a tasty over sized burger! Somehow I managed to wobble back to my motel. Burp!

Nice old stone church in Corrigin

ROAD TRIPPIN PT 1

Decided I'd really not been out to the south east of our state before and that a road trip would fix that. So I got up early Saturday morning and I hit the road. I didn't really have a plan except that I would just keep driving and stop when I felt like exploring or taking a photo. I was going to turn around once I hit Wave Rock. Not a bad plan as it turned out.

This sign outside a road house in Brookton made me think of next years Route 66 road trip

and it's been ages since I saw a Golden Fleece sign (I wonder which multinational bought GF out?)

Wave Rock was very underwhelming, but I guess you need to see it as a kid to be impressed. It would look huge to them, it's still kinda cool though

WAVES

Hi! Am road tripping for two days, stories of the deep dark south east with pics soon, lap top at 12% and cord at home, so gotta sign out....

THE HOOD # 129

Aztec with binoculars?

OLD PERTH # 13

This is an awesome clip, not sure why I hadn't seen this clip before but thanks to Waz I have now. I smiled the whole way through it, so much has changed and yet you can see bits of what remains. Couple of things, the lookout on top of the tree, my Great Uncle Charlie used to sit up in one of those to spot fires as a job after he returned from WW2. My Great Aunty Jean used to climb it every lunch time to bring Charlie his lunch, that's love. Also spot the dead animal on the shoulder for a day at the races and how good did St Georges Tce look back then. Oh and we had trolley buses, imagine if we still did. They didn't just go through the city either....

Trolley Bus in the burbs of Perth, 1966

IT'S ANIMAL DAY HERE AT YELPAR

Belgian Geese and a drummer

Maru has a new box

CLOSER THAN WE THINK

did this ever happen and I missed it?

OLD PERTH # 12

Some of the pubs and hotels that used to dot Perth, some are still here in a renewed form but most are gone forever (I think I have all locations correct?!) oh and I think you'll soon get a bit sad like I am that these were all demolished once you click the links and see what replaced them.....

The Adelphi Hotel, cnr Mill and St Georges Tce. Demolished to build this.

The Palace Hotel, St Georges Tce. Only the facade remains with the hideous Bankwest tower climbing out of its back rooms.

I'm not a big fan of facadism, but I guess they at least left something

The Melbourne Hotel, Milligan and Hay st. Now known as The Old Melbourne Hotel, thankfully restored and still operating

Hotel Australia, was next door to the old Boans building in Murray st. Demolished to build the Myer Building

The Great Western, still there, you know it as the Brass Monkey

The Bohemia Hotel, now part of the Wentworth Hotel on Murray and William

The George Hotel, Murray and George st, West Perth, demolished for this.

The Esplanade, cnr Howard st and The Esplanade.

Its demolishing was one of the great crimes of the last century. Have you seen what's there now?

The Federal Hotel, 179 Wellington St Perth

The Grosvenor Hotel, still going despite the neighbours complaints

The King Edward Hotel, cnr Pier and Hay st

which later became the Paddington Hotel

and was then demolished to build the horrendous Kings Hotel

More old Perth posts here

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

Okay, I feel I need to redeem myself after that previous post. So here are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser playing some Guns and Roses on their Cellos. Most awesome....

DEADLY PREY

"....and there aint no music down there"

The greatest movie trailer you will ever see, stay with it because you so do not want to miss the classic cut the dudes arm off and hit him in the head with his own severed limb scene. Classic lines like "You made me the best...well I still am" and "Let's kick some ass" along with "You fucked up" and "your shirt, take it off". Enjoy this cinematic feast.....

Deadly Prey - The Trailer

and this momentous scene which shows you how to dodge a Sherman tank in your soiled boxer shorts

classic

CONSIDER THE ROCK

As a decorative item for your building entrance.

or

"Hey Carl, what'll we do with this bloody thing?" "Leave it there, we'll stick it in that opening and we'll tell em it's public art"

I always look at that rock when I pass this building and I ask myself "Why?"

COCKBURN SHARKS

I am constantly amazed how most Perthlings don't snigger when they say the name of this suburb. I guess we've managed to pronounce it so differently that we hardly notice any more."Coburn" is how we say it, but that's how you say the late actor James Coburn's name, this my friends is Cock Burn. There's simply no hiding from it. Every eastern stater or overseas visitor sees it for what it is, yet we accept it as if they're just a bunch of smutty minded out of towners, we know better. Hmmm no we don't, Cock Burn it is and it's a seriously stupid name for a suburb. Just sayin.

Noticed also today that the common old stop sign is starting to become the latest protest billboard.

A worthy topic for protest, but I think we should have left them well alone after this one, cos nothing really tops that does it?