Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Argentina fans descended on the Port Douglas foreshore en masse this morning after cheering their side home to victory over England in the World Cup semi final. There was music and singing and dancing and, to the delight of old early morning walkers like me, even beautiful young women getting their tops off. Some […]
Savannah in the Round in Mareeba looks like the bomb. Icehouse, Gangajang, Mossie, The Wolfe Brothers, Dragon, Max Jackson, Lee Kernaghan, Chocolate Starfish, Brooke McLymont – whose Auntie I once had a dalliance with – Don McLean and more. How could you miss it? Maggie and I will be there with bells on. As long […]
… doesn’t Sky commentator Brad ‘Davo’ Davidson shave his head? … did Martin Harley go back to the inside on Brave Monarch in the Fred Best Classic instead of trying to force a run to the outside? … do jockeys persist in taking runs toward the inner on wet tracks when the rail is clearly […]
I live in Paradise, aka Port Douglas, creation of the international criminal Christopher Skase, village of dreams. He was a genius Skase. Crooked from head to toe, but a visionary nevertheless. He saw Port Douglas as the greatest place on earth before anyone did, even the First Australians who have no history in the joint […]
The BOM are predicting catastrophe for Port Douglas. But none of the locals believe them. In the space of a couple of days Cyclone Narelle has gone from a tropical low to a category 1 cyclone to a category 3 to a category 5 that is going to huff and puff and blow all our […]
The view out the window at 5.00pm this afternoon. OMG there is a cloud going over a mountain! Bunker down! But does anyone see a cyclone coming? There is more chance of spotting the Loch Ness Monster. So on Tuesday morning the BOM told Far North QLD residents living in Paradise, Port Douglas like Maggie […]
So are our politicians. Unlike those in most of Australia they are actually cool. Or Councilor Michael Joseph Rees is anyway. He actually apologized to me the other day that the beach was closed when he was a lifeguard and I went down for a swim. It wasn’t Michael’s fault, it was the stingers, but […]
Irony of ironies. The week after I bag Harness Racing NSW for engaging the 50-year-old Angels to play at the Miracle Mile, Maggie and I go out to Port Douglas’ best restaurant Melaluca for dinner because neither of us can be bothered cooking. As we walk in I spot Glenn Shorrock, who I know because […]
I went to bed wishing I could be at Cranbourne on Saturday night. Then I woke up to this. I love Queensland, and I love Australia. We are the greatest country on earth, bar none. New Zealand second. They’re used to it. The only thing bad about paradise is not living here. God bless the […]
All sorts of good people come up to visit the bride and I up here at Chez Butterfly in Port Douglas, most of them from NSW, Victoria and South Australia. Bookmakers, Group 1 winning jockeys, Melbourne Cup winning trainers, Stewards, heavyweight champion boxers, top ten singers, multi millionaire business people, pro punters, career crims, top […]
