Happy
A great time to be in Melbourne, before the footy season starts this weekend. Everyone's happy, no one's lost. Read on...
March 29, 2007 in moblog | Comments (6)
Archives for March 2007
Dodgy
Two dodgy old bloggers in Geelong (Slatts, I mean that in a caring way).
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March 29, 2007 in moblog | Comments (0)
Unusual
Melbourne yesterday, post-wake. An unusual day, like wearing a suit, travelling on the 'wrong' side of a taxi. A suit may project power, confer authority, demand respect...until boarding a cab, the great leveller. For a cabbie, an...
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March 28, 2007 in moblog | Comments (4)
Tough Love
Early Sunday evening I collected a young fella around twenty years old from South Sydney Juniors, an working class club in Sydney’s south eastern suburbs. He was dressed in Souths Sydney football colours and requested I take him home to Maroubra. Entering his neighbourhood I asked, "Doesn’t Bob Carr live... Read on...
March 27, 2007 in On the job | Comments (4)
Tough Guy
Yesterday I kicked off the shift by heading to a rugby league fixture at Olympic Stadium - South Sydney vs Parramatta. Within minutes I’d collected a fare to Redfern, bingo ! Way to go on a quiet Sunday afternoon, forty bucks, thanks very much. The passenger, a fella around thirty... Read on...
March 26, 2007 in On the job | Comments (0)
Adelaide, again
Late yesterday afternoon a middle-aged fella climbed aboard in the City and requested Newtown. Surveying the gridlocked traffic he leant back in the seat and smugly stated, "This is why I moved out of Sydney - you don’t get this in Adelaide." Fair enough. However the mention of Adelaide to... Read on...
March 24, 2007 in On the job | Comments (4)
Updating
Here's another update to bring readers up to speed. I've just delivered my final Cabpoll on the NSW Election to ninemsn's Election site, all viewable on the one page. That makes six over the last two weeks in a pretty ordinary campaign for voters. Passenger feedback indicated they would have... Read on...
March 23, 2007 | Comments (0)
Cablog Update
Three weeks into the sabbatical and it’s time for a quick update. This period has been overtaken by events on the home front plus a major blog development. After 57 years living in the family home my aged mother has decided to relocate to a nursing village. Besides dealing with... Read on...
March 14, 2007 | Comments (12)
