Posts Tagged "butcher"

Major Cuts Butchery (25 Junction Road, Morningside, QLD)

For many of us, buying meat for meals is a necessity – but do you buy yours with your groceries at Coles or Woolworths (aka Woolies), or do you go to a dedicated butchery? Personally, I’d always go and do the former. In my mind, butchers were ‘pointless’ and it was just easier to get the meat from Woolies. Boy how my frame of mind quickly changed! Not only are most...

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Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince

I was very excited to see the movie on the first day it was released. I even read a few reviews before hand, which were categorically positive and had probably raised my expectations. When we came out of the cinema tonight at about midnight, I was feeling a mixture of disappointment and annoyance. Perhaps my biggest gripe about the movie was the unnecessary changes to the story. Yes, I...

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Oliver & Co (104 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, QLD)

The South Brisbane / West End part of town has changed dramatically over the years, and whilst I am too young to remember it as being too much else than what it is today, I often hear stories from the 90′s of people avoiding the area at night as if it were a plague. Crime, fights and homelessness were rampant in the area, and the local Terminus Hotel (now called The Fox – and...

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