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A Beer with … Mickey Randall

June 21, 2024 by 17 Comments

Barry Nicholls continues his ‘A beer with …’ series featuring our sausage roll specialist, beer connoisseur, music and reading fan, and Almanacker favourite – Mickey Randall.

Oakbank races Easter 2020 – Mickey Randall and Kapunda look out!

November 13, 2019 by 5 Comments

Roger Lowrey is rapt the iconic Oakbank Easter racing carnival has been revitalised for 2020. A big week is being planned by Roger to take in all the action of the carnival, so look out punters!

Mickey Randall and an Almanac SA pub crawl: a gestating idea

December 10, 2018 by 21 Comments

We think connoisseur Mickey Randall is the perfect person to organise a South Australian pub crawl. He just needs some suggestions regarding itinerary. The principal criterion is heartfelt connection to the pub in question.

Almanac Memoir: Mickey Randall’s birthday

June 16, 2016 by 19 Comments

Birthdays are a time for reminiscing, and for Micky Randall many a loved memory has been recalled.

Help needed!: New pubs for Mickey to explore

July 2, 2019 by 19 Comments

Mickey Randall is Melbourne next week and would like to visit some inner-city hotels that fit his criteria. Can you help him out with some recommendations?

Almanac Life: Mystery Pub at the Bartley – Meat, Grog, Grog, Meat

July 7, 2026 by 8 Comments

Mickey Randall, and his wife Claire, take readers for another night out at a ‘Mystery Pub’ with all its pros and cons truly noted.

Almanac Running: Etna parkrun – Laps on the Lava (No Fire in the Sky)

May 15, 2026 by 6 Comments

Mickey Randall is in Italy, and as he does most days, he is on a run, this time the Etna Park Run consisting of four laps of Mt Etna.

Almanac Travel: A Run on Tianzhu East Road

May 4, 2026 by 4 Comments

Mickey Randall has been running along Tianzhu Road in Beijing wearing his Glenelg Tigers footy jumper. From the pavement, he gives his impressions of the city dwarfed by enormous, empty housing blocks above.

Gather Round – North Melbourne v Brisbane: My Unicycle Tyre is Flat

April 15, 2026 by 5 Comments

In Gather Round Mickey Randall circumnavigated the ground once known as Lyndoch Oval, but now recast for the viniculturally vulnerable of the eastern seaboard as Barossa Park. The highlight of his day’s journey lay elsewhere – a desolate Womma train station.

Almanac Life and Music: The Eighth Caller Through – The Cars, Neil Young, and Goanna

April 2, 2026 by 12 Comments

Mickey Randall’s mate Lukey dropped off some old vinyl albums recently. They took Mickey back to a special time in his life. Is nostalgia ‘right now — the way it found us in the first place?’

Almanac Other Sports: A Brief History of the Triple Jump and Human Suffering

March 16, 2026 by 4 Comments

Mickey Randall returns to his theme of Sports Day postulating the origins of the triple jump. He concludes that the ancient suffering of the event, for both officials and athletes, lives on.

Almanac Music: McCartney

March 2, 2026 by 10 Comments

While watching the post-Beatles documentary, Man on the Run, Mickey Randall was reminded of his choice of the most significant cultural figure – Paul McCartney. Like the film, Mickey takes us beyond Lennon and McCartney to what happens when a musician leaves the most important band in the world.

Almanac Life: Right Then, It Was Perfect

February 18, 2026 by 2 Comments

Mickey Randall shares with us an exquisite weekend of enjoying the Bay Discovery Centre, a film, and his son Alex’s 18th birthday

Mystery Pub: How Happily Wrong We Were

January 27, 2026 by 5 Comments

As the saying goes, ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’ and as Mickey Randall and Claire found out the same can be said for pubs.

Mystery Pub: Permission to Pretend

January 6, 2026 by 4 Comments

In an untainted nook in which we they fleetingly pause time, Mickey Randall and Claire spend a ‘mystery pub’ evening at the Rockford Hotel in Adelaide.

Almanac Cricket: Cricket by the Sea

December 16, 2025 by 11 Comments

There’s a certain amount of delight watching a leisurely game of country cricket with the sea for a backdrop as Mickey Randall explains.

Almanac Travel: Watch out. There’s a snake right there.

November 10, 2025 by 7 Comments

Not quite a dance with the devil in the pale moonlight, but the bright lush tropics of Indonesia introduced Mickey Randall and Claire to some of the more dangerous members of the animal kingdom during their travels.

Almanac Music: Country Roads, Take Me Home — Again and Again

October 28, 2025 by 6 Comments

John Denver’s ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ is a much loved song of many people as Mickey Randall and Claire found out in Bali.

Almanac Life: Time on a Myponga Hill

October 7, 2025 by 11 Comments

Mickey Randall and Claire recently participated in their annual Carrickalinga escape with dear old friends. Mickey recalls the joys of the weekend.

Almanac (SANFL) Footy: How Good’s (Glenelg’s) Grand Final Week?

September 18, 2025 by 10 Comments

Mickey Randall is savouring every moment in the week leading up to Glenelg’s clash with Sturt in the 2025 SANFL Grand Final this Sunday. There’s also anticipation about what will happen in the aftermath should the Bays get up.