Tag: Bon8

A run-in with an oversized backpack sends one budget airline traveller on a trip down memory lane.

The 2010 Bathurst 1-2 finish by Holden gave me that warm fuzzy feeling you very rarely get in life. But then I remembered I drove a Volvo and it got me thinking...

Jimmy Barnes sings “standin' on the outside lookin' in” and that’s exactly the way I feel over here. Having lived in the UK for a few years I find myself taking every opportunity to fly the Aussie flag. And to celebrate classic Aussie rock.

The technology we have at the moment is awe-inspiringly impressive. But what if all this power were handed to a nine year old child? How would they use it?

Next summer is gunna be huge in London town and opportunity waits for no man. The Australian Olympic team will be touching down and the twelfth man may just come into play.

The office noose has to be the dumbest thing ever invented. The scarf, on the other hand, is luxury without the price tag.

‘Austerity’ is a word I'd never heard before coming to the UK. I had to look it up. Coming from the land of milk and honey, ‘prosperity’ was the word of choice, especially in WA. But has Australia really changed so much over the past five years?

Some of my Pommy mates reckon I take things too far sometimes. I support Australia and anyone who is playing England. I don’t see why I have to relax my sporting beliefs just because I live here in the UK.

Sometimes you think you have had a fantastic stroke of luck, only to discover that this luck was in fact the root cause of all the unfortunate events that followed.

Vlad, it was clear, had been fully trained in an ancient art of vodka warfare and he was about to give me a lesson…