{"id":1364,"date":"2014-03-02T04:08:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2014-03-02T04:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:10:56","slug":"miss-marple-tehe-strange-case-vanishing-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Miss Marple and the strange case of the vanishing wheelchair."},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Click on photos to go to the relevant gallery.<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Let\u2019s get the unpleasant bits over with first, shall we?<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Mary\u2019s broken leg turned out to be far more damaged than originally thought, a MRI scan revealed bits of floating bone, and the poor old cow ended up with \u00a0five screws and a plate in it.. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/feb 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/_d_improd_\/marys-leg1_f_improf_215x178.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"178\" data-mce-width=\"74.6\" data-mce-height=\"59.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">She\u2019s not able to weight b<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">are, and has to wear a plastic compression boot constantly. I&#8217;ve taken to calling her Robocop, much to her displeasure.. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/feb 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/marys-bionic-leg_f_improf_138x174.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"174\" data-mce-height=\"59.6\" data-mce-width=\"44.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Lee-Anne has taken a few weeks off work to help her. \u00a0Lee-Anne had built up 6 months worth of personal leave so she\u2019s not losing out financially. But, as you can imagine, spending all day everyday with her mother is doing her head in a bit. Lee-Anne\u2019s been getting her out and about, but all Mary seems to want to do is to visit places where there is a coffee shop, and sit in the cafe there. They\u2019ve done the <a href=\"http:\/\/nga.gov.au\/Exhibition\/Incas\/\">\u201cGold of the Incas\u201d<\/a> exhibition, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarboretum.act.gov.au\/\">National Arboretum<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anbg.gov.au\/gardens\/\">Botanic gardens<\/a>, and the National library. I went on that last one, there\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nla.gov.au\/exhibitions\/mapping-our-world\">fantastic display of original ancient maps<\/a> on. (This one is a doozey.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_mFGQO_XnM?list=UUv51AT4rmiwH1M9aLDE1AIA\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Bethy\u2019s birthday was a real calamitous cock up! (Bethy turned 19 on 21\/2\/14) Dear god, even by my standards it was a howler. I\u2019d booked tickets for us to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au\/site\/what-is-on.php?detail=a-murder-is-announced-0583\">\u201cA Murder is announced\u201d<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amurderisannounced.com.au\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au\/userfiles\/image\/event\/img0.52d5b678c6d95.jpg\" width=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">I bought tickets for Sunday 23\/2\/14 for the 5.30 pm showing. Then, we booked a table for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamieoliver.com\/italian\/australia\/canberra\">Jamie\u2019s Italian <\/a>at 8.45 pm, the only time they had a five seat table available. But we only went and booked it on the wrong bloody day, we booked on the Saturday. We had sort of got it into our heads that we had play tickets for the Saturday not the Sunday. Bethy arranged a party for her and her mate Savannah, at a local club. On the Sunday. So it ended up with us cancelling out table at Jamie Oliver\u2019s, as it was a late after show booking, and none of us fancied trekking into town that late to eat. Then we had to try to get rid of Bethy and Brandon\u2019s show tickets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0I was so pissed off at Bethy having to miss the show, she\u2019s a real Agatha Christie fan, that I lashed out on two more tickets for them for the Thursday performance.\u00a0So it ended up with just me, Lee-Anne and Mary going on the Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0But wait, the disasters don\u2019t end there! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">We pushed Mary up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au\/site\/\">the theater<\/a>. We\u2019d hoped that Ange, Lee-Anne\u2019s mate would join us with a friend, so as to not waste the tickets. They didn\u2019t show up. So I asked the girls at the ticket counter if they\u2019d try to get rid of them for me; they said they\u2019d try, but didn\u2019t think they\u2019d have much luck, as no one had been asking for returned tickets. The one of them said; <em>\u201cWe could exchange them for another night\u2019s performance for you.\u201d<\/em> Which was kind, but no bloody good as I\u2019d already forked out $200 on two more tickets for bloody Thursday!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Just to rub salt in it, we then ended up sitting apart. Me at the rear, Lee-Anne and Mary sitting near the front. Why? Well that was the only way we were able to get a wheelchair accessible seat for Mary. Fortunately the show was fantastic, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/amurderisannounced.com.au\/cast.html#MissMarple\">old bird playing Miss Marple <\/a>was spot on. There were two really tasty young actresses in the cast too. I love that 1930\u2019s\/40\u2019s \u201cArt Deco\u201d period\/setting, so decadent and sexy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">On the way out, we\u2018d pushed Mary all the way to the car, when I looked down; I noticed a sticker on the frame of the wheelchair; <em>\u201cErrrmmmm&#8230; Lee-Anne, that\u2019s not our wheelchair!\u201d<\/em> We\u2019d left with the wrong wheelchair, though fortunately with the right mad old bat. Luckily it was a better quality wheelchair we&#8217;d &#8220;acquired.&#8221; Me and Lee-Anne legged it back to the theater with it, but there were no wheelchair users left there. So someone had gone off with our (hired,) wheelchair. Oh bollocks. We left our contact details there, but so far no one has reclaimed it. We\u2019ve also contacted the wheelchair hire place, and they didn\u2019t seem too bothered, probably as we&#8217;d stolen them a better one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Came out of work on a Thursday evening shift, and went to drive home, only to find that some junky scumbag had put a brick through my rear passenger window, and stolen our trusty GPS. The bastard. I\u2019d have loved to have caught him at it, the price of getting the window repaired would be worth it just to smack his face in. I reported it to the cop shop, just to get a job number for the insurance claim.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/feb 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/window2_f_improf_191x257.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"257\" data-mce-height=\"59.6\" data-mce-width=\"39.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">I called around and got estimates to get it repaired. The best deal was $295.00 for the window, and $200.00 on a new GPS. I contacted my insurance firm, who kindly pointed out that I had a $700.00 excess on my policy. Bollocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Right, on to things more pleasant<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Bethy\u2019s started at Uni, and so far things are going well. She does have one timetable cock up which means she has to do her \u201cPsychology Practicals\u201d on Tuesdays between 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm. She\u2019s started making new friends there, and feels she fits in well. She also told me that being in a steady relationship, and actually <strong><em>living<\/em> <em>with<\/em> <\/strong>her boyfriend, has given something of a cachet to her. Though not with her Christian friends who have very definite, and rather old fashioned views on <em>&#8220;living in sin.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canon_EF_70%E2%80%93300mm_lens#EF_70.E2.80.93300mm_f.2F4.E2.80.935.6L_IS_USM\">My new lens<\/a> eventually came through, the day before we left on holiday. I ended up ringing John at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycamerafocus.com.au\/\">\u201cMy Camera Focus\u201d<\/a> to see when it would arrive, not a clever thing to do. The guy is going through a rather messy divorce and bent my ear on how depressed he was, it was just like being at work FFS! Though I must say it\u2019s a lovely piece of kit, one\u00a0with a sharp learning curve, and he did do me &#8220;mate&#8217;s rates&#8221; on it, so fair is fair. It\u2019s now known as \u201cthe bird scarer\u201d, as every flying thing avoids its gaze like the plague. I did manage to get this little cracker with it though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/feb 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/hornet-1_f_improf_302x225.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"225\" data-mce-height=\"52.6\" data-mce-width=\"79.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Me and Lee-Anne and the four dogs, took a well earned (fuck you too,) break at the coast. We had six days at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitnsw.com\/destinations\/south-coast\/merimbula-and-sapphire-coast\/pambula\">Pambula<\/a>, on NSW&#8217;s &#8220;Sapphire Coast&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/Pambula 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/early-morning-pambula5_f_improf_301x219.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"219\" data-mce-height=\"52.6\" data-mce-width=\"79.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">We didn\u2019t do much,.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/Pambula 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/hard-day-at-the-beach_f_improf_302x222.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"222\" data-mce-height=\"52.6\" data-mce-width=\"79.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Walked the mutts on the beach two or three times a day, ate out a fair bit, drank lots, shagged like bunnies. I had my first <a href=\"http:\/\/goodfishbadfish.com.au\/?fish=swordfish-and-marlin\">Marlin tail<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com.au\/ShowUserReviews-g255316-d1754443-r126829068-The_Boatshed-Batemans_Bay_New_South_Wale.html\">&#8220;Innes Boatshed&#8221;<\/a> in Bateman&#8217;s Bay, and it\u2019s now my dead cert favourite cut of fish. By god, I never knew fish could have such dense protein, it was like eating steak! As it was their first coastal trip the puppies, Digby and Ginger, were at first awed by the sea, and then reveled in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/Pambula 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/reflections4_f_improf_301x221.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"221\" data-mce-height=\"52.6\" data-mce-width=\"79.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/Pambula 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/fetch_f_improf_301x217.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"217\" data-mce-height=\"52.6\" data-mce-width=\"79.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">We also h<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">ad a meal at an old haunt of ours; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanzibarmerimbula.com.au\/\">Zanzibar Cafe<\/a> in Merimbula. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">We hadn&#8217;t visited this area, nor Zanzibar cafe since 2012. However, Renee the front of house person remembered us, and remembered that we had reviewed the gaff on Tripadvisor. Not only that but she remembered that at that time I was a vegetarian, and other inconsequentials about our visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In my review of our last visit I had written;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;If I were to be picky, I would have liked to have had a recommended wine for each course. My main gripe was that despite the place being in the major cheese producing area of the state, there was no cheese board on offer.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We returned to find that on the menu there was now , (excellent,) recommended wines for each meal, and a local cheeseboard on offer, this was presented on a giant &#8220;mousetrap&#8221;, a lovely touch. See, I&#8217;m now a very influential gastronome me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/Pambula 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/oysters-z_f_improf_202x274.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"274\" data-mce-height=\"59.6\" data-mce-width=\"39.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you know, I&#8217;m no longer a vege, I\u2019m now a fish murderer, \u00a0and therefore had two fish courses for entree and main, both were superb, balancing texture and flavour to a very high standard. The bloody presentation was faultless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/Pambula 14\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/_d_improd_\/white-fish_f_improf_302x220.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"220\" data-mce-height=\"52.6\" data-mce-width=\"79.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lee-Anne had \u00a0rock oysters, (shudder,) and \u00a0venison, which she said were first rate.\u00a0 I, inevitably had the cheese board to finish, good strong local cheeses with appropriate support. Lee-Anne had something called a &#8220;chocolate opera&#8221; for desert, a not visually stunning dish but a real taste explosion!<\/p>\n<p>(God, Lee-Anne on oysters and chocolate! Pity me guys. More unnatural demands on me then,\u00a0 I&#8217;m only a frail male you know!!)<\/p>\n<p>The menu is now price fixe, which is always a welcome sight, and the meals were priced very reasonably considering the standard of food and ambiance of the venue. Since we last visited Zanzibar has been awarded a &#8220;hat&#8221;, I can only think they will earn another soon. The chef\u2019s name is \u201cHuw Jones\u201d, but he\u2019s not Welsh, how odd.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">At work, we\u2019ve got a new consultant. We liked the old doctor, but they do love us and leave us. She\u2019s a Pom is Doc Sheriff, but unfortunately not from Nottingham. This new lass is very on the ball though, she\u2019s worked at <a href=\"http:\/\/eppic.org.au\/\">EPPIC in Melbourne <\/a>under Professor McGory, the leading psychosis quack in Aus. Then we find out she\u2019s five month up the duff and will only be with us a short while. Bugger.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Oh, we may be moving to a new office, one down South Canberra in the inelegantly named suburb of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuggeranong\">\u201cTuggeranong\u201d. <\/a>As this will be a fair old trip in for me each day, Lee-Anne\u2019s agreed to me buying a new motorbike when the time comes. I think she fancies the insurance payout to cover \u00a0our next trip home.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Lovely eventwe saw\u00a0 the other day. Ok, you\u2019re a rather large young lady, \u201cblessed\u201d with enormous tits. You\u2019re on your way to a date, so you stop off at a large darkened reflective window to adjust your lippy, make sure your hair is fine, and while you\u2019re at it, rearrange your tits in your bra so as to make maximum impact. This takes a lot of fiddling, some careful manipulation, \u00a0and a fair bit of \u00a0heaving. Satisfied with how you now look, you stroll on a few steps. You then pass another large window, but one which does not have the reflective coating. Only then do you realise that your whole performance, including some rather nifty tit juggling, has been watched by a gym-full of people, mainly blokes, and including a rather knackered looking Welshman who has just fallen off the rowing machine in laughter. Mustering as much dignity as you can, you stroll on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The other day, bored with just doing \u201cstraight from the tin\u201d beer brewing, I pushed the boat out and bought my own hops, and had a crack at brewing honey beer. I did this to my own recipe, one I made up on the spot. \u00a0(Brew beer, add hops to taste, when fermenting like buggery throw in a kilo and a half of honey, stand well back.) I did this as the best pint I had on our last trip home, was Dartmoor Brewery\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmoorbrewery.co.uk\/beer\/three-hares-abv-4-4\">\u201cThree Hares honey Ale\u201d<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.s210409887.websitehome.co.uk\/\">The Peter Tavy Inn<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">I know this may shock you, but it turned out, well, very bloody nice indeed! Nothing like \u201cThree Hares\u201d of course, but still a good drop of, slightly honeyed, English Ale. This is now bottle conditioning in our airing cupboard. There will still be some left when it is three months old, and in top condition. But only because I\u2019m having a \u201cdry\u201d March. I\u2019ve decided that seeing as I felt so\u00a0 great after my 9 weeks on the wagon, which I had \u00a0before coming home last time, that I\u2019d make a regular thing of it. So this year March, July and November will be dry months. Don\u2019t think I won\u2019t do it, I\u2019m too much of an an arrogant bastard not to.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had a couple of narrow missed with snakes of late.\u00a0 Lee-Anne was walking our dogs down by the lake, when a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red-belly_Black_Snake\">red-belly<\/a> slid underneath Millie. Millie froze in position, fortunately, with a look of absolute disgust and terror on her face. Then one night when we were both walking the dogs at Sheppard\u2019s lookout, Ginger got all excited; <em>\u201cOh what\u2019s that little fucker playing with now?\u201d<\/em> I asked. A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_brown_snake\">Brown Snake<\/a> was the answer. Ginger was playing \u201ccatch\u201d with its tail, it looked like the prospect of owning a \u201clive stick\u201d for playing with was all of Ginger\u2019s dreams come true. Though a hefty boot and a good screaming at seemed to put him off the idea.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Clinically, the venom of the eastern brown snake is known to cause <a title=\"Diarrhea\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diarrhea\">diarrhea<\/a>, <a title=\"Dizziness\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dizziness\">dizziness<\/a>, collapse or <a title=\"Convulsions\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Convulsions\">convulsions<\/a>, <a title=\"Renal failure\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renal_failure\">renal failure<\/a>, <a title=\"Paralysis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paralysis\">paralysis<\/a> and <a title=\"Cardiac arrest\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardiac_arrest\">cardiac arrest<\/a>.<\/h6>\n<p>How do you get this information into a particularly stupid puppy?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Me and Lee-Anne have bought our first bit of new furniture together, not bad, we\u2019ve only been married twelve years. Ok, we did buy a new mattress when I moved over, as Lee-Anne\u2019s old water bed I found uncomfortable, and my tossing, (don\u2019t) and turning at night made her seasick. So we\u2019ve lashed out a couple of grand on two, not one but two, three seater sofas. They are this sort.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plush.com.au\/Handler.image?entityType=Category&amp;entityId=2cd9d4f8-1b37-4745-9092-96cca5960284&amp;imageId=f8e9dbd5-db24-46ee-9325-a1bd00e3378d&amp;lastModified=635040136360000000\" width=\"671\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">But ours will be in dark fabric, not white leather, so not much of a clue in that picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">We\u2019re off to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billybragg.co.uk\/\">Billy Bragg<\/a> in March, I haven\u2019t seen him since I bought him a pint at Cambridge folk festival. Well I didn\u2019t so much buy him a pint, just gave him one. I was walking through the crowd, with two fresh pints of Guinness, when I came upon him being interviewed for local TV. So I strolled up, asked him if he liked Guinness, and when he said yes, I gave him mine (it was untouched,) and said I\u2019d get myself another. He was most amused, the camera crew and interviewer were not . I wonder if he remembers me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">We\u2019re also seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Davies\">Alan Bloody Davies<\/a>. I\u2019m only annoyed as he advertised tickets for his Sydney gig, and when I bought four, only <em>then<\/em> did he advertise his Canberra gig. Still I\u2019ve got three days off, so we may as well make a trip up to the big city for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">I\u2019ve also bought tickets for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.events.act.gov.au\/major-events-canberra\/icc-cricket-world-cup\">cricket world cup matches <\/a>which are being played in Canberra;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Event: South Africa v Ireland<br \/>\nDate: Tue 3 Mar 2015<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Event: West Indies v Zimbabwe<br \/>\nDate: Tue 24 Feb 2015<\/p>\n<p>Event: Bangladesh v Afghanistan<br \/>\nDate: Wed 18 Feb 2015<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Best seats in the house again too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s it for this update, go listen to the new music, go and marvel at the lovely photos, or, presumably, just go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on photos to go to the relevant gallery. &nbsp; Let\u2019s get the unpleasant bits over with first, shall we? 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