Crushers scoreboard.

This was erected a few weeks ago so I feel Crushers plan on continuing to use this oval close to me.
Mid season on the the teams moaned about the ground being undersized, this was of course denied by all locals, but I did a quick and simple check and find that it's definitely undersize and the marking must have been laid by someone after too much happy juice. Some markings are a proper 10 metres apart but most others are somewhere from about 8.5 to 10 with no real symmetry or logic applied.
The ground doesn't suffer size constraints like typical pommie grounds do, usually caused by their worship of the false prophet Soccer.
Maybe if we're lucky the markings will grow out in the off season and they'll wander out with a tape that's been made this century to get it right, but they'll have to move the goalposts.

A week till the election.

Finally a few days ago some election posters were raised.
About all I have to yet work out is which polling booth to cast my vote.
I also checked the roll in case Grace was still listed, she wasn't, that saves some explaining but I still felt a bit sad.

Tiny flowers.

These looked pretty near the bottom of our stairs so I snapped a pic.
Only about the size of a little fingernail they were.

EJ Holden.

50 years old and quite rare now, I saw this when visiting my doctor.
These were regarded as a family car back in their day and few moaned about a lack of power back then but its 2.2 litre I6 engine is easily outpowered by the currently available least powerful car the 1 litre Suzuki Alto.
In reality our perceptions of what's needed has been warped into a fantasy world, the speed limits are much the same as 50 years ago and the enforcement is now inescapable, so why do we continue to buy cars that we just can't use the power they make.

PM spotted at Coles.

The Milky Bar Kid is a remarkable facsimile of Kevin Rudd.
With less than a fortnight till the election there's likely to be little time before it loses all relevance.
BTW Grace was not a fan of white chocolate, preferring any other type before it, she was however very fond of peppermint.

Jim's Ginger Beer.

Always an eye for saving money I now have a stock of ultra cheap Ginger Beer.
I have a 10 litre brewer that was a pain for doing beer but is superb for making Ginger pop.
All I do is chuck in a packet of crushed ginger powder, a kilo of raw sugar (better colour) fill with water, add some bread yeast, wait about 3 days and bottle, putting a teaspoon of sugar in to prime the bottle. Makes 8 1.25 litre bottles that can be drank after a few days. Add things to experiment, a squirt of lemon juice may help.
The ginger gives the mouth a taste that allows you to drink a few, much as bitter hops help beer.
Now Jimmy sleeps better at night as well as easing his budget.
It's also one of the few fun things you can do here that isn't against our draconian laws, though if I tried to sell it I suppose I'd be facing consecutive life sentences.
The red colour was a boo-boo, I wanted a pink colour and popped in a few drops of red food colouring, result deep red, who would of thought?

Missed out.

I would have grabbed one if there was a Cowboys one left but as always only the less popular teams are reduced, including the team I think will get the wooden spoon, and it's not the favourite on the right.
To make sense of that think back to the Bulldogs a few years ago, penthouse to cellar in one week.