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For 11 years Paddy Pallin has been bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Australia. This year there are 23 nights in 10 locations. This week (June 10th – 13th) there are four dates in Melbourne, which means it isn’t quite as crowded as previous years. If you haven’t been before, then go [...]

This week in Victoria, one cyclist died and two are in intensive care with head injuries after collisions with cars. These videos from the Cycling Promotion Fund were all filmed within a few blocks of my house. The actor drivers seems to be infinitely more careful that the real drivers. It’s all very well showing [...]

When I first started teaching her, I remember telling her, you know, the rules of B.A.S.E. jumping, like, the facts. You jump long enough, you’ll break bones. You’re in the sport long enough, you’re going to watch people die. And then, third, and it’s kind of a pointless thing to talk about, but you’re gonna [...]

I watched these movies last night. Awesome as always – the movie highlight of the year! //

But water is fun to play in and on. And the fact that the bay is likely to be polluted and full of diseased, toxin-laden fish did not stop the massive 2008 Melbourne International Boat and Lifestyle Show at docklands this weekend. We rode our bikes through the city on Sunday and went to gawk [...]

Last night we went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. It was awesome. This is a trailer with bits of the movies we watched :) – There is a boring advertising/sponsors bit in the middle of this but I love the sequences at the end so much …. //

The Easter break was awesome : great weather, adventures, food, wine and company :) As I said, we stayed, ‘here’, Phillip Island, in a house with a couple of friends. There were kayaking trips exploring mangroves and the stunning surf bashed southern coast (thanks to some northerly winds calming the ocean down). There were cliff [...]

It must have been a good weekend because at breakfast this morning I couldn’t bring to mind ANY of my tasks or deadlines or ‘things to do’ for Monday :) Work last week was tough for both me and Ross so we deserved to switch off our computers and our minds for 48 hours. So [...]

Who liked sports at school? I didn’t. I went to one of those stupid schools that believed in competitions and playing in your school colours etc. etc. bullshit etc. and everyone else was invisible. Every thing we played or learned to play was with the aim of competing. Not fitness or enjoyment. Everyone who couldn’t [...]

On Saturday we planted 30 trees