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Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 7:17 pm
by The Scooter Guy
Anyone been to Exxopolis yet? It's making its first appearance at WOMADelaide this year.

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:35 am
by Wayno
Sir Terry Pratchett died yesterday. A terrible loss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 4:43 am
by monotonehell
Wayno wrote:Sir Terry Pratchett died yesterday. A terrible loss.
There's a petition on Change.org for Death to return him. Only Pratchett fans will truly understand how touching that is. :cry:

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:00 pm
by Nathan
If anyone is feeling generous, one of my photos from Blinc is up on the Adelaide Festival / Bendigo Bank competition shortlist for the final week, and I'd love some votes ;)
$500 + a festival membership is up for grabs for voters.

https://www.bendigobanksocial.com.au/BA ... ype=Branch

Edit: It's been suggested I add some more details about the shot. The image is the piece A-Synchron by László Zsolt Bordos, projected on to the Festival Theatre, shot from the Eastern side above Lyrics. Shot on iPhone, edited with VSCO Cam.

Oh, and you can vote multiple times - it's only restricted to once per day. So more chances to pump up my vote tally, and more chances for you guys to win something too.


Image

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 6:37 pm
by The Scooter Guy
Yet another Red Rooster has succumbed!
This time, here in Ingle Farm is where a new First Choice Liquor will take place.

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:18 pm
by Brucetiki
The Scooter Guy wrote:Yet another Red Rooster has succumbed!
This time, here in Ingle Farm is where a new First Choice Liquor will take place.
That succumbed some time ago. The First Choice is well on it's way to being built.

A little surprised it didn't become a KFC.

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:56 pm
by The Scooter Guy
Brucetiki wrote:
The Scooter Guy wrote:Yet another Red Rooster has succumbed!
This time, here in Ingle Farm is where a new First Choice Liquor will take place.
That succumbed some time ago. The First Choice is well on it's way to being built.

A little surprised it didn't become a KFC.
A few are having their signages updated.

SA Red Rooster Status (so far)

Edwardstown - In business, new signage
Munno Para/Smithfield - In business, new signage
Blair Athol - In business, new signage?
Kilkenny - In business? New signage?
Harbourtown - Closed, likely to be converted to KFC?
Paralowie - Fashioned into KFC
Seaford - Closed & For Lease, likely to be redeveloped
Ingle Farm - Closed, demolished & redeveloped into First Choice Liquor
Campbelltown - Closed, demolished & redeveloped into Newton Ceramic Centre
Salisbury - Converted into bakery
Elizabeth - In business, new signage?
Golden Grove Village - Converted into bakery
Aberfoyle Park - Converted into funeral agent
Tranmere - Converted into Oporto
Naracoorte - Converted into Noodle Bar
Murray Bridge - In Business? New Signage?
Noarlunga - Converted into HJ

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:26 pm
by PeFe
From the 'Tiser reporting on an article in London's Sunday Times
UK’s Sunday Times names Adelaide on list of best place in the world to live

ADELAIDE has made it to a UK newspaper’s list of best places to live overseas..

The list was part of a month-long series on the best places in the world to live, published by the News Corp-owned Sunday Times.

The overall winner of the series was the Spanish city Palma de Mallorca but Adelaide was named first on the list of best places to live overseas.

The City of Churches was described Adelaide as “one of Australia’s best-kept secrets”.

“Small and perfectly formed, Adelaide is one of Australia’s best-kept secrets, full of elegant tree-lined boulevards, homes with lacy verandas and beautiful parks and gardens,” the paper gushes.

“It has the prettiest cricket ground in the world - the locals are obsessed with the sport - and one of the starriest night skies”.

“The central food market will satisfy every culinary craving, while the vine-clad Barossa Valley is on the doorstep.

“It also has the lowest house prices of any Australian main state capital: an average of Aus$52000”.

Other cities on the list include Amsterdam, Florence, Austin, Barcelona, Hong Kong and San Francisco.
Original article : http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/sty ... 533432.ece

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 2:38 am
by Matt
PeFe wrote:From the 'Tiser reporting on an article in London's Sunday Times
UK’s Sunday Times names Adelaide on list of best place in the world to live

ADELAIDE has made it to a UK newspaper’s list of best places to live overseas..

The list was part of a month-long series on the best places in the world to live, published by the News Corp-owned Sunday Times.

The overall winner of the series was the Spanish city Palma de Mallorca but Adelaide was named first on the list of best places to live overseas.

The City of Churches was described Adelaide as “one of Australia’s best-kept secrets”.

“Small and perfectly formed, Adelaide is one of Australia’s best-kept secrets, full of elegant tree-lined boulevards, homes with lacy verandas and beautiful parks and gardens,” the paper gushes.

“It has the prettiest cricket ground in the world - the locals are obsessed with the sport - and one of the starriest night skies”.

“The central food market will satisfy every culinary craving, while the vine-clad Barossa Valley is on the doorstep.

“It also has the lowest house prices of any Australian main state capital: an average of Aus$52000”.

Other cities on the list include Amsterdam, Florence, Austin, Barcelona, Hong Kong and San Francisco.
Original article : http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/sty ... 533432.ece
Haha... my partner's stepmum (in Cornwall) sent me this in the mail on Sunday.
Took a photo, tweeted it to Jay Weatherill, and bang. The power of social media.

Great exposure for Adelaide - while the "#1 rating" was obviously because the list was in alphabetical order (I say 'obviously' - I didn't spot it, Jay didn't spot it, and whoever wrote the initial Tiser article didn't spot it - triple fail), it still means that Adelaide was the first city everyone saw before they kept flicking pages and returned to their Sunday morning fry-up. ;)

Seriously though, it's great to see so many media outlets (around the world) singing Adelaide's praises. Very much doubt it would have happened 10 years ago.
At the very least, people are starting to recognise that Adelaide actually exists.

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:59 pm
by Wayno
Matt wrote:Seriously though, it's great to see so many media outlets (around the world) singing Adelaide's praises. Very much doubt it would have happened 10 years ago.
At the very least, people are starting to recognise that Adelaide actually exists.
+1

Media coverage begets media coverage.

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:11 pm
by rev
You can now play pacman on the streets of Adelaide via Google Maps. :applause:

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 5:36 am
by stumpjumper
It would be remiss of me not to pass on an interesting rumour. As I heard it, there is a second Billy Gordon among the Queensland Labor members, with details due to emerge shortly. Supposedly, the public service is already gearing up for another election within the next few months. Queensland politics has always been excellent entertainment value.

Well, the second Billy Gordon has been exposed in Queensland. It's first time MP for Pumicstone, Rick Williams. He doesn't lodge tax returns, and got out of that one by declaring himself mentally ill. Not too ill to be elected to parliament, though. Now he's up for intimidation and harassment.

I realise that the only thing anyone is interested in here is more construction, any type, any time, any place, but I thought that a bit of news from the outside world might be welcome.

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 3:13 pm
by The Scooter Guy
rev wrote:You can now play pacman on the streets of Adelaide via Google Maps. :applause:
And if I managed to get captured many times by the Street View crew, then perhaps next year we could play 'Where's Ryan?' :lol:

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:31 am
by Waewick
stumpjumper wrote:It would be remiss of me not to pass on an interesting rumour. As I heard it, there is a second Billy Gordon among the Queensland Labor members, with details due to emerge shortly. Supposedly, the public service is already gearing up for another election within the next few months. Queensland politics has always been excellent entertainment value.

Well, the second Billy Gordon has been exposed in Queensland. It's first time MP for Pumicstone, Rick Williams. He doesn't lodge tax returns, and got out of that one by declaring himself mentally ill. Not too ill to be elected to parliament, though. Now he's up for intimidation and harassment.

I realise that the only thing anyone is interested in here is more construction, any type, any time, any place, but I thought that a bit of news from the outside world might be welcome.
you have to love QLD politics.

its like a soap opera mixed in with a horror flick.

Re: Beer Garden

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:43 am
by Wayno
I heard the Stag Hotel has closed down?

Can anyone confirm?