Double deuce takes that honour.
Haven’t been there yet but will make sure to check it out now.
Not sure about the name though, sounds like something that happens after a dodgy curry!
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It’s amazing. Bartenders are great value too.
There’s a fair few local gin distilleries popping up out in Orange/Bathurst area, i’m assuming they’re eventually going to be releasing some whiskeys.
I’m pretty shore I paid too much money for a glass of that whiskey a couple of weeks ago.
Good thing you weren’t at sea
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Yeah, I don’t like rum.
What lubricates my gears?
Finding out in moving back to Sydney at the end of the year 
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But you’ll miss out on the full wet season!
Opens tomorrow
Service will still be shit!
A week has passed but thought I’d write up a little review of this. TLDR: solid 3.5/5. Fun day out. Adrian is still quality but getting really slow now.
The game was Zhejiang vs Henan. Although Zhejiang are usually based in the provincial capital, Hangzhou, they have been playing their home games two hours away in Huzhou all season because of the Asian Games. This meant that numbers were down a bit (only 7.5k in an athletics stadium that seats 40k) but it has a great roof that kept the noise from the lively ends in.
I sat next to a bloke who was a long time fan of Zhejiang and had traveled up from Hangzhou for the game. He said he thought it was probably about half-half Hangzhou travelers and Huzhou locals. He remembered Cahill and Spiranovic playing for them and we chatted through most of the game about the trials and tribulations of being a fan of the local league in China, where Eurosnobbery is the default setting of the average football fan.
Henan is not nearby, but there was still great away support. This despite excessive caution from the authorities. I’ve read that away fans have to enter the stadium and be seated like three hours before kick-off, before home fans arrive. I arrived about an hour before kick-off and the two away bays were completely full and banners already set up.
The game itself was quite entertaining. Zhejiang were happy to absorb pressure and then countered very effectively against a pretty disorganised Henan defence, winning 3-0 in the end. VAR overturned what would have been a Henan equalizer when they were down 1-0 – a nice set play from a short corner with Adrian providing the delivery. No idea what the problem was. No replays in the stadium. VAR fucking shit up all over the world it seems. Adrian’s touch and delivery from set pieces remains as good as ever, but unfortunately he is really looking his age fitness wise. He seemed unwilling to press with the same intensity as his team mates, and you could see he was managing himself through the game in the same way you’d see Del Piero do it at SFC (walking when team mates are jogging, jogging when they are sprinting etc).
And of course it’d be remiss not to review the catering. Inside the stadium: F. No beer. No hot food. Not even a coke ffs. Water, iced tea and prepackaged snacks only. Outside the stadium: B+. Big open area with lots of street food sellers, beers, fold up seating, mini football set up etc. Good vibes.
Street food and beer sellers outside the stadium. Stadium lit up in Zhejiang green.
The view from my seat, including inspirational quote from the president across the upper tier.
The TV cameras were facing my side, which was a lot more full.
ZJ home end.
I particularly enjoyed the massive “SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CLUB” – a sentiment I think we can all get behind.
Henan team go over to thank their fans after getting pumped 3-0 on the road.
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My eldest has just had his first full go through the car ownership lifecycle.
Early in the pandemic he bought (with my help) his first car, just before used car prices started going crazy.
It was a shitbox, no doubt; but is it not a rite of passage that your first car has to be a piece of crap? This one was a 2008 Ford Focus (manual, because he learned to drive on my Mazda3 which was also manual).
We’d negotiated a good price ($2.5k) for what it was, but on condition that the owner needed it for one more day, so we left a deposit and arranged collection the following day.
On collection day, the owner called to say that some fuckwit had rear-ended him, so there was now body damage that wasn’t previously there when we agreed on a price. He said he understood if we didn’t want to proceed and was happy to return our deposit, but also said he’d be willing to lower the price significantly as he just wanted to move on. Most people would have walked, but the boy really wanted a car and we ended up taking it off the guys hands for just $1250.
That was over 2 years ago, and on the whole it really hasn’t been that bad of a car, despite its looks. A few trips to the mechanic (to be expected with 250,000kms on it), and some water ingress from the rear shunt (that a bit of strategically place silicone fixed).
He finally offloaded it today for twice what he paid (coincidentally the same amount he originally planned to buy it for: $2.5k. I’ve told him to never expect that sort of outcome with a used car ever again.
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Trackstarshow on instagram. Probably some of the best content around at the moment (for anyone who likes music) that isn’t just click bait subscribe for part 2 garbage. Killer playlist on Spotify too.
Collecting keys to new digs with the (substantially) better half.
Had what morphed into a 3.5 month settlement with an absolute cunt of a vendor, but all that nonsense is imminently to be consigned to ancient history. Onwards and upwards. 
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you can’t call a vendor a cunt without the attached story!
Short version, it was a contracted 12 week settlement, but he demanded an extra 2 up to 14 total on exchange. That already put us under pressure as we had it all timed perfectly to the end of current lease (end Sep) and that put us over.
Settlement week rolls around, a few days out after everything is booked / planned he tells us there will be a delay. Genuinely feared short term homelessness, had to re-book removalists and extend current lease (again) inside a week. At that point we learn he was planning for a later date and simultaneous settlement at his new place on 25/10 all along, an email trail that my solicitor was not supposed to see confirmed same, unfortunately she missed that detail in an inadvertently forwarded message back in August and we only discovered it when they formally advised us of the delay early October.
We issue a Notice to Complete as a formality, to get the 14 day period ticking, vendor then shits his pants and decides he doesn’t want to risk a simultaneous settlement after all. Continually pushes us for a quicker settlement inside the revised date he provided, after we’ve made another set of alternative arrangements, and which would have given us no time last week to physically do the final inspection. Told him to GGF about 17 times last week, finally did the inspection last night and settled this morning. He has our funds overnight and settles on his new place tomorrow, as he’d planned all along anyways, so the last week of back and forth stress was utterly pointless.
Bloke just changed his mind on a whim numerous times throughout and expected us to suck it up, so glad that saga is over. Last night in the current place will be watching the boys on the tele (if P+ works, lol) Friday night, proper move on Saturday.
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Following on from the above, todays gears have been lubricated by sealing the most marvellous of all hat tricks.
The agent at our old place tried on the most cliched of all games, trying to sting us for a carpet clean on the way out. After we terminated there (prior to the few short-term extensions) the landlord listed it for sale, it sold earlier this week, literally a week after we vacated. So we already suspected they weren’t actually going to clean the carpets after slugging us, but also they were then unable to provide the written quote that they verbally told us they had obtained, they expected we were just going to cough up $300 without question. One strongly worded Karen-esque email later, they’ve backed down and immediately refunded the entire bond after all.
That’s the 3rd rental agent in a row that tried it on while we were squirrelling away our deposit, and the third in a row that was bulldozed and sent packing by yours truly. I am now retired. 
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I also had a pretty good win yesterday. I came home to see my box of missing medical supplies from last week safely delivered to my house! That was after AusPost saying they had lost it. AusPost would’ve been jumping up and down if they’d been the ones to have fixed it after all. I suspect I got lucky and whoever got the package probably just dropped it off at my address.
Sometimes people can be cool, after all.
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