St Patricks Day 2018

Today was St Patrick's day for 2018. I usually go and have a few drinks at the Brian Boru hotel in Bendigo but today I decided to go to the Shamrock Hotel instead. I was glad I did because I got to meet some new people who were really nice. The atmosphere in the pub was great. I drank a pint of Guinness and a pint of Kilkenny. Two pints were enough for me as I don't have a high tolerance for alcohol.

Skydancers cafe

Today, I went along to the Skydancers cafe in Harcourt for lunch with a group of people from my church. It was really nice day. Only about 12 people went down but we had fun. I had a really delicious Lamb souvlaki for lunch. All in all, it was a great day out.

It was well worth the visit.

My 64th birthday

Today was my 64th birthday. yes, I turned 64. I did not do anything special to celebrate. I just bought a bottle of red wine and had a pizza for dinner. I think that when you get to my age you really do not care much for birthdays.

Cooling off in Melbourne.

Today, the temperature in Bendigo was over 40.00 degrees Celsius for the second day in a row. So, I decided that a good way to beat the heat was to travel by nice air-conditioned train to Melbourne, where the temperature was a mid 29.00 degrees. It turned out to be a good way to get out of the heat. I mostly just window shopped while I was down there, but I took a few quite interesting photos with my cell phone. Enjoy.

My Christmas break for 2017 - 2018

I have just returned to Bendigo after spending 10 days in Sydney for the Christmas and New year holidays. To recap, I flew to Sydney on the 23rd December with Tiger Airlines, who were over an hour late taking off. I stayed with my brother Bill in his unit in Wollooware Bay. We had Christmas day there with my mother. During my time in Sydney, I spent time at Cronulla beach:

Visited my old school- St Patrick's College - Sutherland

Visited Manly Beach and

Attended the Hillsong Campus in Alexandria.

The latest Star wars movie

This evening I got to see "Star Wars: The last Jedi".

This is movie no 8 in the series. As I expected, it was pretty good. Well worth the cost of the movie ticket. Go and see it if you haven't yet done so.

An "interesting day" on 3 accounts.

Today is the 15th of November 2017. 3 very interesting events happened today.
1. The Socceroos qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Russia after beating Honduras 3-1 in Sydney.

2. In Zimbabwe, a military coup may have finally ousted Robert Mugabe.

and thirdly, we found out that the same sex marriage equality vote went in favour of the "Yes" vote.

My feeling about all this is....."two out of three aint bad"