Cris-a-tunity

We were on the wrong end of a 5 -1 scoreline today ... we were pretty much terrible .. I got our one goal and in all frankness i might never score a better one , i ran from inside our half and kept going .. I only mention it as it brought us to 2 -1 at half time I thought we would go on to win it .. how wrong could i be .. I guess i will leave it at that .. we aren't that bad .. tactically we are all over the place though which is deeply frustrating at times .

I did a blog a few weeks back about sport here .. knowing a bit more now I was thinking i would write a little more ..

I never mentioned the "Super 14" in the last blog, but it is definitely worth a mention as it is pretty much the champions league of southern hemisphere rugby union. Teams from Oz, NZ and SA all play in league format. The sydney team are called the warratahs, canbnerra have a team called the ACT brumbies. Most of the games seem to be played on friday evening at around 5 in the evening, everyone rocks down from work and watches the game which means the atmosphere is great.

The AFL is well underway now, the swans have had a terrible start to the season but had a great win last night against geelong, Tadgh Kennelly was back from injury and was brillant, the boys in the commentary box reckon he is one of the best players in the game. After last nights game they interviewed him, he was in great form, there has been trouble with the sod in the stadium and the interviewer asked tadgh if he was worried about the state of the pitch tadgh said "I think the pitch is great .. I have played in a hell of alot worse in Ireland" the commentary boys were loving it. Just a quick note on setanta, I think he plays with Carlton which is a melbourne team, there not doing well and I think he was starting but was dropped for this weekend's game.

The NRL is the other big league which I am slowly coming round to, my local team "Easts" aka the Sydney Roosters are doing okay, hopefully i am going to see them in the next few weeks ..
The best thing about the NRL is a a tv programme on thursday nights called the footy show .. basically four of the lads just taking the piss for two hours but at the same time addressing all the weeks footy issues .. I think it is brillo ..

Canberra: Part 2

Nothing to do with Canberra actually

we played against Maroubra on Sunday

Result: 3-3

Verdict: forgettable game, I got clattered a couple of times which has left me aching all week

These "game" photos are suffering a "sameness" i will try and get some better snaps going ..

A painting from the national gallery from Sidney Ford's "Ned Kelly" series .. essentially the paintings depict scenes from Kelly's life and his dealings with the law. He appears with a box on his head which is symbolic of armour he wore in his scraps with the cops except in the last two paintings where instead of white eyes he has red eyes

Blue poles by Jackson Pollock .. A priceless work of art ?

Canberra: Part 1

In the national museum .. Vegemite or something

also in the national Museum ..

the first "Holden" procduced in Austraila

Taken from the top of Mount Ainsley ..

directly below is the war memorial museum straight up the avenue (red brick) is the original parliament house and behind that with the huge flagpole is the new parliament house

On the road again

We have a 4 day week here for easter which is just mighty. I am writing this blog from Canberra. Got here late last night, basically peter the fella I share an apartment with, his folks live here so he asked me if I wanted to come down for a look. Actually It is my first trip outside of Sydney since I got here so its all rather exciting. I think it is about 270k's from Sydney which sounds like alot but we got here in no time, it was all motorway.
I think the place is quite small but it seems beautifully laid out and a very spacious kind of place. Today I will get a bit of a tour of the sights so hopefully I can post a range of snaps over the weekend.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL

I was wondering should a countdown of some "automatic" kind be started for keith's wedding


KM & HARRIET WEDDING COUNTDOWN : About 5 1/2 months to go (A very prcise breakdown)

The Lions

largin in the city with Daniel

Queens Park home patch .. i'll try and get some action pics next time i.e the team playing

We gave "The lions" a bit of a pasting yesterday .. it ended up 6 -0 . Hopefully we can get a bit of a run going.

The other big news I guess is that I have my first week in work down, seems okay so far anyway so i guess I will just take it as it comes.

Rose Bay

A truly glorious Rose Bay in the background

Hardly the Maracanna .. the weather was brillo and that's enough for me

Queens Park 1 Maccabi 1

Our first outing and we came away with a draw, however the result could have gone either way. They scored a softish goal in the first half we pushed hard but couldn't seem to get the break through, there keeper was exceptional, I think he was a lad from Northern Ireland. In the second half I nicked a goal to draw us level .. from here we contined to push but there keeper was inspired. I also hit the top of the bar with a side footed volley. They then went down our end and got a penalty. Our man in goal saved the day however . We had one more chance that was struck well but again there keeper denied us and seconds later the ref blew for full time. An enjoyable forst day out hopefully we can push on from here we will hardly meet a keeper as good again. It is amazing the difference a ood keeper can make to a team.

X-Man

Went for a chest X-Ray yesterday. It was in one of those Immigration offices. Christ they are dismal dreary places. Everyone behind the counter seemed to be milling around doing nothing and the queue seemed only to be getting bigger. Almost everyone waiting seemed to be of Asian origin and they all seemed to be going for medical's. I thanked my stars i didn't have to go for a medical that seemed like a very tedius affair. Going for an X-ray in my opinion is actually quiet a frightening thing. For some reaon I always expect the worst (Mr O' Neill your in trouble lad you have a shadow on your lung/collasped lung). Th Radiographer said Sean O'Neill you can go then said no wait and I looked over at her examining my X-Ray .. I can honestly say that for 10 seconds I was in a state of unmitigated panic eventually she said your fine and can go.

The league campaign kicks off tomorrow in Rose Bay(where ever that is) against Maccabi .. I think I will blog match day I will for the first few games anyway depending on how we are going I might lose interest after that . I will also bring my camera.