By Tim Eakins | Published:
Friday, 11th September, 2009
Internship - Day Two
It’s Perth Royal Show judging time and this morning it’s all about a local German baker and his award winning breads. Germany and bread both make my things that are awesome list so this story is right up my alley.
Talking to the chief bread judge on the phone makes me incredibly hungry [...]
By Tim Eakins | Published:
Tuesday, 21st July, 2009
A good friend of mine is going on a coffee date Saturday and is freaking out. Not because of any normal nerves but over her coffee choice.
She drinks lattes and apparently that is the coffee of choice for promiscuous gals. Who knew? So naturally she is worrying about sending out the wrong message.
Nerves aside I’m [...]
By Tim Eakins | Published:
Thursday, 18th June, 2009
Public holidays irritate me. Please don’t hate me. If I was in the business of working Mondays I suppose I would be pro public holiday but for now they are a pain in the backside.
Monday is my shopping day. Throw a public holiday Monday into the mix and all of a sudden my regular table [...]
Being stuck at home last week with the flu (Not of the swine variety, just a good old, unsexy, unfashionable virus) got me doing something I don’t usually do when sick: Thinking about how to make money.
Usually I’m pretty good at dreaming up ways to spend money when I’m knee deep in tissues and butter [...]
Ten things learnt from a week covering Parliament House.
1 - Make sure your fly is done up on the first day.
2 - Double check your fly is done up the second day.
3 - If you are wearing a suit, striking teachers may think you are the Government.
4 - If you tell the Premier: “I really [...]
By Tim Eakins | Published:
Wednesday, 6th May, 2009
A win last Friday night by the best football team in the land reminded me of my love of hot pies. And by hot pies I don’t mean the mighty Magpies but the humble Aussie pastry.
I remembered a Queensland friend once told me about the pie mecca of Yatala Bakery: “Everyone in Brisbane should go [...]
By Tim Eakins | Published:
Wednesday, 6th May, 2009
Experienced court reporter Peter Gregory has a simple piece of advice for budding journalists when covering the courts of Australia: “Show up.”
Speaking to Australia’s best looking journalism students from Brisbane’s Jschool, Gregory recalls the trial of convicted triple murderer Peter Dupas: “I was able to see him (Dupas) winking at the female journalists.”
If Gregory had [...]
By Tim Eakins | Published:
Thursday, 30th April, 2009
The Lord Mayor Campbell Newman was on the TV news last night having a whinge about abandoned shopping trolleys.
It showed the man walking through a graveyard of shopping trolleys looking forlorn and concerned. He would not of looked out of place at a mass disaster site.
He mentioned that he was considering bringing in by-laws to [...]
By Tim Eakins | Published:
Thursday, 2nd April, 2009
Are Toyota drivers the new Volvo drivers?
I ask this because when I first started driving in 2001 Volvo drivers were easily the worst drivers on the road.
Not very fond of their indicators but very fond of their fog lights I found Volvo drivers to be the most inpatient, annoying drivers on the road.
These days though I find [...]