After some encouragement I was able to convince my lovely girlfriend Xuan to make more of the incredibly cute ‘Andy the Android’ amigurumi (Japanese for knitted or crocheted stuffed toy) dolls first shown on the Andy Android goes to Phuket post. The one below is the third one she has made but the first one we’ve [...]

My fond memories of showbags and dagwood dogs (a battered hot dog sausage on a stick) from my childhood days led me to this year’s Royal Melbourne Show. I hadn’t been to the show for over 10 years so I was quite excited about going this time. For those who don’t know the Royal Melbourne [...]

Melbourne was just hit by the most ferocious of storms that I have ever seen here. For around 15 minutes ferocious gusts of wind and heavy rain and hail bucketed down over Melbourne with some of the hail stones the size golf balls. People on the streets were frantically running for cover as small tree [...]

It’s already March 2010 and it’s definitely been way too long since my last post. Since coming back to Melbourne from London late October last year I’ve been so busy getting my life back on track and haven’t had much time to blog. I’ve got some time now so I thought I’d start the New [...]

I was walking through Westferry Circus Gardens today in Canary Wharf and saw this little squirrel scavenging for food in the trash bin and hopping around as squirrels do. I snapped away with my camera trying to get a few decent shots in which is never easy with squirrels since they rarely stay still for [...]