WAFL round 12
It was a horrible weekend for footy so I stayed home.
Continue readingMany voices inside her by Song List Rat
The beautiful gogan goddess came down like a wolf on the fold and ate the weekend. On the way she stopped at the bakery in Mt Barker and ate some pies. Then she ate the Kingdom of Denmark. Her chariot was a pick-up truck filled with a cracker of a band. What was left of the town she nailed in a coffin and buried. She wailed a musical epitaph but vowed on her return to restore the Kingdom to normal. Or so the legend goes.
Continue readingStaying alive in Nazi-occupied Paris, 1941 by Richard Jones
A look at Farewell, Mr H
This French beauty is set during the Nazi occupation of Paris in the early 1940s. Master jeweller Mr Haffmann (Daniel Auteuil) had fled Poland with his Jewish family when he was a child and now he feels –quite accurately –the tide turning again.
Continue readingJust what we needed and a flag for the Tigers
WAFL round 10
Round 10 delivered nice set of results and the WAFL ladder tightened going into the last weekend’s bye.
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WAFL round nine
West Perth has returned to the top of the WAFL ladder and Subiaco is within sight of the five at the half-way stage of a very interesting season.
Continue readingSharks back on top after another close one
Minutes after Fremantle secured victory over Hawthorn at Perth Stadium East Fremantle won a thriller a short walk away at the WACA. The Sharks were two points down at three quarter time and held on in the closing stages. Cody Leggett kicked five goals in his best game for East Fremantle, Matthew Jupp outpointed the dangerous Tyler Keitel and Milan Murdock was lively in the midfield. Keegan Knott kicked four goals for the Falcons.
Continue readingA wartime spy caper which tricked the Nazis by Richard Jones
Even though we’re nearly eight decades past the end of World War 2 there’s still no shortage of movies about the massive conflict. One of the latest involves a clever scheme dreamed up by behind-the-scenes special secret British agents to convince Hitler and his generals that the Allied were planning a 1943 invasion of Greece as their spearhead into re-taking Europe. Not Sicily and then mainland Italy as was the case involving a huge land and sea operation which remained an ultra-secret.
Continue readingShanahan has you figured out by Song List Rat
Some musical heroes swagger into town like Genghis Khan announcing intent to conquer all by wielding electric guitars like scimitars. Others fly under the radar like Clark Kent and then turn into Superwoman. Helen Shanahan slunk into the first weekend of the Denmark Festival of Voice like a gut shot deer (Deer In Headlights) and left an all-conquering hero.
Continue readingBig WAFL weekend and my part in a winning goal
WAFL round seven
The WA Day long weekend is always a big one in the WAFL and this year there was a bonus with Nat Fyfe’s return to football significantly boosting the crowd at Leederville Oval.
Sharks dismiss Lions at the WACA
WAFL round six
I took in a lot of the WAFL last weekend. All of Peel and Claremont from Rushton Park via Channel Seven’s telecast – it’s good, by the way, their AFL colleagues could take note. And a bit of the East Fremantle-Subiaco game from the WACA and East Perth-West Coast at Leederville Oval.
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