Ninja returns

So they call me the guinea pig whisperer now.


Dunno if you heard yesterday morning, but I had all sorts of drama around at home because my 9 year old’s guinea pig did a runner.

Ninja lived up to his name…..he leapt out of Delaney’s hands and headed for the hills.

Well, he headed for the scrub in particular the ivy. The ivy is everywhere at our place and it’s very very thick.

Ninja saw himself as this outlaw guinea pig living in the ivy forever munching on green grass and living a life on the run. He of course didn’t factor in the drama from cats and big sharp beaked currawangs.

Tried to catch the bugger for a day or so……he kept on showing himself and then dashing back into hiding.

My girls were beside themselves.

I eventually saved the day with Kale.

Dunno if you’re familiar with Kale. It’s a leafy vegetable which I think only hippies eat. I’ve never ever tried it, but Ninja thinks it’s the best food on the earth. He sees kale like we see chocolate. It was hard to find in Canberra yesterday, but I did track some down at Choka Bai Jo in Curtin.

I got a handful of leaves and I crawled into the undergrowth on my hands and knees. I called out to Ninja and spoke to him in soothing tones…..you should have seen me going.

Eventually these little black eyes showed themselves. He was craning his neck towards me smelling the beautiful smell of the fresh kale. He inched closer towards me and eventually started nibbling from my outstretched hand. We sat there eating kale for a couple of minutes and then I grabbed him. He squealed and struggled, but I was never going to let go.



He’s safe in his hutch now.



What a saga.



Just call me the guinea pig whisperer.

Spitting the dummies

Things are looking a bit sad in at Myer Tuggeranong.

I think they’ve got a week to go before they close the doors at Myer Tuggeranong but most of the stock is already gone. I reckon 3/4 ‘s of the stock is gone……..the shop floor is littered now with empty shop fittings and there are some bargains to be had….but you know what, I thought there might have been even more serious bargains than is the case.

It’s not going to see quite the same at the Hyperdome without Myer. I think the Hyperdome will definitely be effected more by the closure of Myer than will Westfield Woden by the closure of Harvey Norman. Now of course Myer will be heading to Woden Plaza…..I’m not sure what will happen with the old space that Myer occupied.

Can anyone help me.

What’s going to happen in at the Hyperdome where Myer has been till now.

Now, the other thing that you may want to help me with……I was in at Myer at the Hyperdome on the weekend. Most of the clothes have been sold so there are a bunch of mannequins just hanging around as mannequins do. Many of them have congregated in groups….they’re having little mannequin parties and you really get the feeling that they all come alive at night. What was that horrible movie in the 80’s ? Anyway…..there’s a handwritten sign up next to a big group of mannequins in at the Hyperdome which says, the mannequins are not for sale.

THE MANNEQUINS ARE NOT FOR SALE.

I want to know why they felt they had to put that sign up. Were people seriously trying to buy the mannequins ?

And if so,…..please explain to me what they were going to do with them.

What do you do with a bunch of mannequins ?

Does anyone know. It’s a family show…….but please tell me what on earth you could do with a half a dozen mannequins.

I’m thinking that if you put a big backyard barbecue on at your place and you don’t get enough RSVP’s you could always beef up the numbers by placing some mannequins about the place. You’d obviously have to dress them up and put drinks in their hand, but I think it would work.

What else ?

They’d fit the bill for handing out how to vote cards for the Greens at the ACT election in October. I think that would work a dream. Can you think of any other uses for half a dozen mannequins

Kevenge

You’ve gotta hand it to Kevin Rudd.




He may be an egocentric workaholic maniac, but he’s a very very smart maniac.



I have no doubt now that he released the swearing video on the weekend.



I have no doubt that he had planned it for weeks and that he knew that he’d record that interview with David Speers from Sky on the Saturday night just 7 hours before flying out to Mexico.



I have no doubt that he’d long planned to make his resignation at 1am in Washington so as to dominate every nightly news bulletin in Australia.



He’s a schemer…….this Machievellian plot is beautiful in it’s maximum impact rollout.



KEVIN Rudd's letter of resignation as Foreign Minister arrived in Julia Gillard's office just as he was announcing his dramatic move in Washington.

There had been no consultation between the two over the issue. As if he would have consulted her about anything after the events of 2010



It is understood Mr Rudd's office had begun moves to change his travel plans - bringing him back to Australia - earlier in the day.



This had been on for weeks



Can Kevvy get the numbers between now and Monday.



Surely not.



Surely he will end up resigning and forcing a by election for his Qld seat….and by election that the Govt just couldn’t win.

Ants and flies

I was sitting watching the cricket yesterday late in the afternoon.


Dunno why.

Don’t really care much about India and Sri Lanka…but I was there sitting on the lounge.

There was a fly in the house and he just wouldn’t let me alone.

I don’t get flies.

I mean look…..I’m clearly many hundred times bigger than the fly…wouldn’t you think that he would leave me the hell alone and just lay low while I was there.

He’s got the whole house to buzz around in, but he chooses to buzz around in my face and to keep on landing on my arm and my ear.

Do you get that ? Why must they infuriate us ? Why do they seemingly have a death wish ?

I did warn him to leave me alone, but he didn’t listen.

I wacked him with the TV guide in the end.

Ants are the same.

When you’re having a beer on the back deck….and there’s a rogue ant wandering through…….why on earth would that ant hunt me down and try to bite me.

What is the point of him inflicting that pain on me.

I mean look at it……I’m like Mt Everest to him and he’s a solitary climber. Did he believe that he was going to win this battle with me and kill me with his fangs.

I would be happy to just leave him be if he left me alone…..but no he had to push his little fangs in to me and that brought about his demise.

Ants and flies……so brave, but so stupid.

Excess Baggage

Steven Molk is our TV expert. He was on the program yesterday morning.

He’s a very very good judge.

Molky suggested to us yesterday that Excess Baggage may be dropped by the Nine Network even though it’s just a few weeks into the season.

He was on the money.

Channel Nine’s weight loss reality series Excess Baggage is the first casualty of the TV ratings war for the new year. The ratings haven’t even officially started and it’s been boned……well not quite boned but downgraded.

It’s been shunted off to the digital channel Go from next Monday.

I’m a bit surprised because it didn’t look like a bad show to me.  I probably only saw about 20 mins of it, but it looked good to me.

In the national viewing figures from Monday night it came 4^th in the 7pm slot.  It was smashed by Home And Away and ABC News and most importantly the Biggest Loser.

So as of next week we’ll get re runs of The Big Bang Theory.

Another one bites the dust.

My Kitchen Rules is doing exceptionally well in the early national figures….as is Young Talent Time and New Girl on Ten.

One day when I retire, I’ll watch some TV.

The cricket....it ain't over yet.

So what do you think….will we win the cricket ?


I think it could still go either way.

It’s just going to depend on how this pitch has fared under the covers and what sort of weather greets them in Hobart today.

It’s been an enthralling test match. And you know, I don’t mind these bowlers test matches. A green top in Hobart which has provided so much assistance to the seamers.

I love these test matches. I love it when every single ball could claim a wicket.

Australia has it’s shortest opening batting pair ever in Phil Hughes and Dave Warner.

I was such a wrap for little Hughesy when he first rose to prominence, but I don’t know that’s he’s up to it. Nevertheless, I was so pleased to see him fight through to stumps last night.

He should have been out.

If the kiwis had referred they would have had him. The technology showed a little nick on the glove and he should be gone.

It ain’t over yet cricket fans.

I’m looking forward to the finals day play

BYO grog....take it or leave it ?

So tell me, when you go to a Xmas party or a backyard barbecue anytime. When it’s a BYO grog thing and you take a six pack of Crownies…..so you lob and put your stubbies on ice and rip the top off the first one……


I don’t know about you, but I’m not a big drinker anymore…..truth is, I never really was. So if I take a 6 pack to a party….well, I can tell you on the weekend, I took a 6 pack of Coronas and a four pack of Beam and coke. I think I had 3 stubbies of Corona and a couple of Beams and coke.

Here’s my question.

Who among us, on the way out of a party like that would grab the 3 Coronas and two beams to take them back home. Who just leaves it there ?

I always leave it.

I think it looks a bit scabby to be ferreting through the ice to grab a couple of stubbies.

And ….whenever I’ve hosted a party, I’ve always thought that one of the great bonuses was that you got to keep all of the odd bottles that were left. I think that’s a reward for cleaning up the mess.

Where do you sit on this one.

Costco

I went to a Xmas party on the weekend around at Meredith and Michaels in Flynn. It was a really good night. We worried about the weather, but it all went by without a drop of rain.


This was one of those well co-ordinated functions where everyone bought a specific food. I was instructed to bring one of those big apple pies from Costco.

I’d never been to Costco.

I went out with my friend Tanya and checked it all out.

It’s a weird place isn’t it ?

Who’s a Costco member ? Are you going to renew after a year, or have you had enough ?

There was some good stuff out there. Dunno if I could be bothered paying the 60 bucks…..I dunno.

I mean, look, there was some good prices on things out there, but the way retail is at the moment there’s a sale on everywhere. There’s some really good prices out there everywhere.

Who’s been to Harris Scarfe…..wow ! It’s crazy in there…and you don’t have to pay $60 to join.

Who’s a Costco convert ?

Green blend coffee ?

Hey we were talking about coffee earlier in the week and what a coffee town this is.


Figures out this month show that here in Canberra we do more serious coffee than anywhere else in the country. That makes me smile.

I’m a bit of a coffee snob. I do grind my own beans in here at work.

I’m in the kitchen here in the radio station earlier on in the morning and I stumbled across this little jar coffee.

Get a load of this.

This is a jar of Nescafe Green Blend coffee

What the hell is Green Blend Coffee ?

For starters anyone who’s regularly drinking instant coffee, I don’t understand…the stuff tastes like cardboard.

This is a 50 gram jar of coffee. 50 grams ? That’s like 3 cups of coffee in the jar.

But what about the way they promote it the coffee on the jar ? This is what it says to convince you to consumer the Nescafe Green Blend coffee. For starters they call it Green Blend to convince you that somehow this drink is saving the planet....but then this.

It says ‘Delivers 70% more antioxidants than green tea’ And that’s supposed to inspire us to purchase the coffee.

I’m sorry, but if you have to compare the coffee to green tea and make a purchase on the amount of antioxidants then we don’t really want you among the ranks of coffee drinkers.

Just stick with your green tea.

Anti oxidants ? Honestly.

Dead fish in Lake Burley Griffin

Here are those pics I was talking about....the pics of the dead fish in Lake Burley Griffin. Thanks to Bill.

What do you make of them ?