Cyclone Adam

Adam has just completed a whirlwind tour of Melbourne in which he tore up the nightlife with Annika and Amanda, borrowed and trashed my motorcycle collection, taught Dominic how to live on just four hours sleep a night, helped Annika move into her new house and single-handedly took care of the house-moving reward slab. Oh, he may have also married a girl he met at the Lemmings lunch but we're still unsure if the bar manager at the Labour in Vain Hotel is a legitimate marriage celebrant. He flew back to Sydney last night (Tuesday) and all of Melbourne breathed a sigh of relief. The pictures below are of him at the Broadford motorcycle races with his new mate, Doug (not the Doug who came down with him) and Amanda's friend Jasmine's boyfriend: Nick. The other pic is of family friend David Morley and me at the same race meeting.


In other family news, Annika is in her new digs with her mate Jen. Jen's parents own the place so the landlord problem is essentially solved and it's a clean, two-bedroom town house in a nice area of her favourite suburb: Brunswick. It's an easy bicycle ride to uni and all her favourite restaurants. She's getting Aus Study assistance for the first time this year but will still need some kind of job to make ends meet.
Nick is also getting Aus Study but has endured some months of poverty waiting for the first cheque to arrive. Hopefully, it will be there as you read this and if you want to talk to him, your best bet will be Souths Leagues Club.
Julia got two tickets to "Spicks and Specs" at the Comedy Festival and we went last Sunday night. It was a ruder version of the TV show but lots of fun. The joke I liked best came from one of the contestants, Frank Woodley: "My father died peacefully in his sleep, which is more than can be said for the passengers in the car he was driving at the time."