Wine of the Week:
Coldstream Hills Pinot Noir 2007
Perhaps an over-indulgence on a Sunday afternoon but hey, everyone deserves it once in a while. Most know how enjoyable Coldstream Hills is so I wont need to wax lyrical but it is a fine drop. Very easy, very good drinking. The only risk would be that it could lead to another bottle, then another...then another.
http://www.coldstreamhills.com.au
I do promise that this wont turn into a political soapbox every week but there has been a fair bit going on.
It has been a week since we voted and we as yet, do not have a parliament and still under the rule of a caretaker government. I don't think anyone would have thought that it would have lasted this long but it has.
Last week, sleep won in the end in the battle between my debut as a political commentator and tiredness but not before seeing both leaders giving their anticipated speeches. The fact that nothing was said that made me fire up the laptop again may have said more than anything I could. However, there has been a couple of developments that has left me slightly amused.
Is it just me or is the fact that the independents have banded together into an alliance slightly ironic?
And why do all the pictures of Bob Katter have him in a black cowboy hat? If he ends up growing a thin black moustache, that will do me!!!
What did make me more than laugh but also cringe was this report in the SMH on the sunday after the election.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/blamedodging-keneally-on-another-planet-20100822-13ahe.html
Now, as most of you may know I am a Labor supporter and a passionate one at that. However, when NSW go to the polls next year I can not, in all conscious vote for them to stay in government. And if I there was any doubt prior to this report, this just confirms it.
I never thought I would have agreed with Barry O'Farrell in a hundred years but in this case, I do. If Kristina Keneally didn't think that a backlash against NSW Labor wasn't going to happen at a National level, then in the words of the immortal Darryl Kerrigan..."tell her she's dreamin'"!
Tragic thing is she did give me some hope...once. Hopefully, the Dragons will not fail me this year as well.
Bob Katter comes across as an eccentric but I can't help but like his honesty. It's a breath of fresh air in today's scripted political wasteland. Bring on the thin moustache with a twirl, as Movember is approaching. O'Farrell's right but too polite, Keneally not only doesn't live in Sydney, she doesn't live on earth but resides in her own little universe called 'denial' soon to be sucked up by a black hole, never to be seen again.
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