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Almanac Sausage Roll Review: Ocean Street Bakehouse, Victor Harbor

While in Victor Harbor Mickey Randall seeks out the local sausage roll, and provides his tasting review of the said roll.

Sausage Roll Review: Tanunda Bakery and Café – Howzat

Cricket, cricket everywhere, but nary a conversation to be had between Mickey Randall and his parents. En route to the Barossa with a local Test to be played a sausage roll fit for review was sought from Tanunda.

Sausage Roll Review: Platy Pie Bakery of Mount Compass

Mickey Randall tackled a monster of a sausage roll at the Platy Pie Bakery and with it the monster questions of existence, with cameos from Aristotle, The Dude and HAL from 2001 [Shame you couldn’t shoe-horn Camus in for the sake of this excerpt – Ed]

Sausage Roll Review: Linke’s Bakehouse and Pantry, Nuriootpa

Mickey Randall is Nuriootpa for work, it’s lunch time, and time for a sausage roll. Mickey puts his sausage roll to the taste test and shares his thoughts.

Sausage Roll Review: The Goolwa Bakery

Mickey Randall recently spent time in Goolwa. Naturally, he called in to the bakery to sample a sausage roll

Sausage Roll Review: The Port Elliot Bakery

Mickey Randall took on a titan of the SA bakery industry for the first time. Was it worth the wait?

Sausage Roll Review: (not quite) Hurling on Hurtle Square

Even during Covid-19 Mickey Randall finds an opportunity to purchase a sausage roll; here’s his review, is it hit or miss?

Sausage Roll Review: LRB plays the Dulwich Bakery, Glenelg South

Mickey rates this week’s sampling more Diamantina Cocktail than Sleeper Catcher (that’s a good thing – Ed).

Sausage Roll Review: Orange Spot Bakery, Glenelg

Another sausage roll, another sausage roll review. Mickey Randall puts the taste buds to the test with his latest sausage roll review. Did that sausage roll pass the Mickey taste test?

Sausage Roll Review: Banjo’s, Moseley Square, Glenelg

Mickey Randall has partaken in a taste test of sausage rolls purchased from a new bakery in Adelaide. And his verdict? Find out here.

VAFA B Section – Hampton v Fitzroy: Donuts, Sausage Rolls and Free Hot Dogs

Roy Boys endured a tough game against Hampton Rovers and the presence of Dr Phil at the game ensured one player was grateful for a dentist in attendance.

Footy: A few sausage rolls from Fev would make this Lions fan roar

This piece was originally published on the ABC Grandstand Footy Unleashed website in August 2008. I thought it timely to revisit it given the Kangaroos’ selection of exciting Sudanese prospect Majak Daw in the rookie draft. Will Daw be any good? Who knows. It doesn’t really matter because he is the first Sudanese player at [Read more]

Almanac Reviews: No Bullshit Bakeries of the Bush – A Willunga Sausage Roll

In the latest of his sausage roll reviews, Mickey Randall ponders – among other things – bullnose verandahs, old typewriters, and community notice-boards

Round 15 – Carlton v Fremantle: Rock and Roll Football

A rollicking ride from Shane Thomas as he riffs on the fans who aren’t singing the Blues for Carlton anymore. It might be a long way to the top, but there’s plenty of sausage rolls along the way!

Almanac (Music) Memoir: Freshwater Creek: are you ready to rock’n’roll?

In his prose piece this week, KD writes about an early gig his band, Murmurs, played at Freshwater Creek Hall, near Anglesea, Victoria, in 1980. He recalls being surprised – and more than a little concerned – about how the gig was advertised.

Almanac Travel – Sausage FM: less talk, more pork!

British Sausage Week is over for another year. Mickey Randall with a rollicking tale of sausage in cider. Sort of.

A Beer with … Mickey Randall

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

Brighton Jetty Bakery: a Eurovision black site

Mickey Randall is back with a sausage roll review, while also reflecting on Eurovision and the greatly missed Terry Wogan

Almanac Life: 100 Up/I’m So Vein

Swish’s recent hundred wasn’t made in the backyard at Mum’s and he did it mostly lying down, due to his Hereditary Haemochromatosis. He thanks some excellent medical specialists and Lifeblood Australia.

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

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.