Our Mate Tony Martin

Watching cup fever on SBS.

This has to be the funniest video I seen in a long time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4br61DnJ_vw

Tony Martin legendary goalie!!

I love Ed Kavalee's shoulders, I'm sure they have their own postcode.

Last Thursday I headed up the Pacific Highway to Emerald Beach

and stayed a couple of days with my sister,

Cathy and brother-in-law, Greg.

It was a quick trip as I was due back to work on Tuesday

after the long weekend.

Friday, we bought some fish 'n chips and had them

on an outside table overlooking the yachts

Cathy and I

then onto Coffs Harbour Yacht club for a quiet drink

before heading back to Emerald to get in

out of the wind. Brrr.

Life During Wartime Premiere

Sydney Film Festival 2010

Festival Director Clare Stewart, producer Christine K. Walker,

actress Shirley Henderson,

Jury President Jan Chapman and Jury member Yonfan.

Photographer Don Arnold (c) 2010

Some of Shirley Henderson's movies

• Harry Potter series - Moaning Myrtle
• Bridget Jones 1 & 2 - Jude
• Marple - Murder Is Easy - Honoria Wanflete
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Edythe DuBarry
• Doctor Who - Ursula Blake
• Hamish Macbeth - Isabel Sutherland
• Salt On Our Skin (Desire)- Mary

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376602/

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Hey Val, Shirley looks a lot like Kathryn Erbe

and both are wonderful actresses.

2 Degrees of Separation -

Shirley was in Salt on Our Skin with Vincent D'Onofrio

Kathryn Erbe was in Law & Order: Criminal Intent with VDO

I think I have got over my disappointment on missing out on going to the Sydney Film Festival on Sunday, woke up not feeling the best, headache and aches and pains, I ended up sleeping the afternoon away. The festival is on for another 5 days so will see how I go.

Today, I received a call from youngest son, Michael to say he had the day off and thought he would drop in for a visit. 3 hours later his old room was finally cleared of his clutter, the paper shredder running at full bore getting rid of old papers, receipts etc. and then he hopped up onto the roof and cleared the gutters for me. He left taking the last of his stuff from his room and and will be back to collect what was left in the garage. Yay.

traveled down to Sydney today to have morning tea

at Pancakes on the Rocks, in The Rocks district

with son, daughter and son-in-law.

It was Nicholas' birthday

Here he is with his new camera. Very swish.

We walked along the water's edge at Circular Quay

and I couldn't resist taking this photo

of the Sydney Opera House.

Later after Nicholas had left to meet up with friends,

we stopped by for coffee and croissant at Baroque's.

Across the road was The Rocks' Farmer's Market

in George Street.

Plenty of tourists around.

Before I left to go home I checked out the

Dendy Opera Quay's cinema

where tomorrow I will return to attend to see

the film "The Last Train Home".

The Sydney Film Festival starts today.

I'm looking forward to going to see 3 films on Sunday

including The New Tenants short.

The other film 'Just Like Us'

with comedian Ahmed Ahmed ,

made his debut on Aussie TV with his appearance on

TV's Hey! Hey! Its Saturday

(shown on Wednesday nights .lol)

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and just for something different -

The Kate Ceberano, John Farnham, Jon Stevens

and cast of Jesus Christ Superstar

perform 'Everything's Alright'

on 'Hey Hey It's Saturday' 1992

Extended Version by paparazzi

Thanks PopTv.com

A chance meeting of

Vincent D'Onofrio and Hugh Jackman

on the streets of New York

Thanks to http://url4.eu/3q2T6

Original Trailer for The Empire Strikes Back.

Thirty Years Ago.

Cool Voice-Over

I have a great weekend planned for the weekend

5th-6th June.

First, I will be in Sydney on Saturday 5th June to attend my son, Nicholas, birthday get-together at The Rocks. I will be only staying for the morning tea session as he and his friends plan to make it an all-dayer, as they all work different shifts, it makes it easier to organise.

I love The Rocks area its a great tourist spot

and there is always something happening there.

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Sydney Film Festival 2010

I will be attending 3 films

at the Sydney Film Festival.

The first film, 'The Last Train Home'

will be shown at the Dendy Opera Quays cinema

(The Opera Quays cinema is situated bottom right of picture.)

I have passed by the cinema countless times on my way

to the Sydney Opera House so when I was looking at the

program of films to see I thought what a great time to go.

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My next 2 films will be shown at the

Event Cinema 9 in George Street.

The first session will be The New Tenants,

Winner of Best Live Action Short at the 2010 Academy Awards®,

to be followed by the documentary 'Just Like Us'.

Director, Ahmed Ahmed sets out to break down barriers

with comedy,

by taking a group of US stand-up comics

(from a variety of backgrounds) on a tour of the Middle East.

One of the most exciting and sometimes scary ferry rides is the Manly to Circular Quay, Sydney commuter runs. The ferry has to pass by North and South Heads at the entrance to Sydney Harbour. Below is a video filmed on a wet and stormy day on run past the Heads in 2007.

The Manly ferry looks like it is surfing the waves.

Years ago when I was a teenager my parents took my sisters and I by train journey to Cairns to visit my fathers family. My aunt and uncle thought a ferry trip out to Green Island would be a nice day trip, it was until it was time to return back to the mainland. A storm came up as we were heading back to the wharf. Auntie was getting worried when my sisters and I went out on deck but my mother assured her we were ok as living in a harbour city we were quite use to riding ferries and especially the Manly ferry.

Jessica Watson

Congratulations

16 year old Jessica completed her 210 days, 23,000 nautical miles journey, becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world.

Happy Mother's Day, Ladies