John & Colette’s Adventures

Spring is in the air and it’s that time of the year when the magpies turn vicious. One of the guys at work rides his bike in most days of the week and over the past couple weeks he’s been complaining that this magpie that lives outside the office likes to swoop him as he [...]

I was just browsing through NBC’s olympic coverage page and discovered that all the American sports wear is made by Roots – a Canadian sporting goods store. What’s up with that?

Friday night Colette & I went out to dinner on Mooloolaba’s esplanade and stopped at this place that had a good dessert menu. We’ve walked by it many times, but this is the first time we stopped. I had a pretty tasty Tuna steak with mango salsa and Co had a scallops dish with BACON [...]

I brewed up my first batch of beer on Saturday — and promptly burnt the paint off the drip pan on the stupid electric stove. And of course this being the Land of Strange Things, buying a replacement drip pan turns out to be a Big Adventuretm. You have to know the model number of [...]