Lunching for Australia in style! A guest’s review of a top flight meal at Melbourne’s iconic ‘France Soir’ restaurant.
Almanac Poetry: Haiku Bob – Round 2: the blur
March 26, 2025 by 1 Comment
Some haiku reflections from Collingwood’s match against Footscray by Haiku Bob.
Almanac Lunches: Footy season launch get together.
March 25, 2025 by 9 Comments
The Footy Almanac faithful gathered for lunch last Friday at the All Nations Hotel to welcome in the 2025 footy season.
Almanac Poetry: How to Use a Hammer
March 24, 2025 by 2 Comments
Step 1: Get a hammer. Step 2: Find a nail. Step 3: ??? This week’s poem by Kevin Densley gives us his simple how-to guide for using a hammer. A tool for more than one occasion perhaps?
Almanac Travel: Travel Shorts NYC #2
March 23, 2025 by 1 Comment
Ian Wilson continues his recount of his visit to New York in his series’Travel Shorts’. Part 2 Ian is out and about in Brooklyn.
Almanac Music: ‘Hold your breath and count to ten’ – Songs Involving Falling
March 21, 2025 by 88 Comments
In this latest instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song, the topic is songs involving falling. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Life: Home and Away
March 19, 2025 by 6 Comments
Peter Fuller has had a hectic few weeks or so visiting an ill friend in Queensland as Cyclone Alfred hit; watching his beloved Blues lose a match everyone thought they would easily win, and some running to alleviate his frustrations.
Almanac Music: Vale – Jesse Colin Young
March 18, 2025 by 2 Comments
Jesse Colin Young of The Youngbloods is the latest icon from the music world to join the great gig in the sky passing away a couple of days ago aged 83.
The Fall of the Duck
March 18, 2025 by 2 Comments
The crash landing reflected the disgrace of the act implies Damian Ballassone in his latest offering.
Almanac Music: The Over the Hill Blues
March 18, 2025 by 2 Comments
Matt Gately grooved to the sights and sounds of The SummerSalt Tour 2025 when it featured in Batemans Bay NSW recently.
Almanac Life: Remembering Grandpa, the Braybrook Hotel, and a time long ago
March 18, 2025 by 13 Comments
Col and his cousins met up at The Braybrook Hotel to remember their grandfather and fathers recalling family stories from times past.
Ghosts of the Fairway: Belair Parkrun
March 17, 2025 by 10 Comments
In the metaphorical blink of an eye, Belair National Park in the Adelaide Hills has transformed from verdant golfing locale to a sunburnt parkrun host – Mickey Randall shares his experiences of both iterations and reflects on the personal and societal meaning within.
Almanac Poetry: The Poet Who Got the Grant Instead of You
March 17, 2025 by 8 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley is a humorous take on the role of ego and rivalry in the literary community. [Contains mild coarse language]
Almanac Travel: Travel Shorts – NYC
March 17, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Ian Wilson recalls with fond memories the first visit he and Lynda made to New York.
Almanac Music: Dylan Cover Songs – International Style #2: Thespians Do Dylan
March 14, 2025 by 12 Comments
Mae West singing Dylan – who would believe it! Incredible as it sounds but she does indeed, and she is also the only performer born in the 1800s to have recorded a Dylan song. This is one of the many amazing surprises Karl Dubravs has in store for his latest edition of ‘Dylan Cover Songs’.
Almanac Festivals: Adelaide Writers Week 2025 – A fabulous week!.
March 11, 2025 by 7 Comments
It was another fantastic Adelaide Writers Week with plenty to whet any avid reader’s mind.
Almanac Film: ‘Ange & The Boss – Puskás In Australia’ – a pearler of a film!
March 11, 2025 by 3 Comments
Tony Wilson and Cam Fink have produced ‘a pearler of a film’, ‘Ange and the Boss – Puskas in Australia’ featuring Australian Soccer luminaries Ferenc Puskas and Ange Postecoglou.
Tackled at Moorabbin
March 11, 2025 by 7 Comments
Beware taking on the smallest footballer on the ground Damian Balassone suggests in his poem.
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