And these are medium cups!

First day waking up in qld

Silly hat there Greg

Australia day at manly beach..... Crowds!

Cycling with the dog!

Ben's amazingly impromptu olive & lemon sauce for fish

on the spot, classic reduction, sans vino however ...
1. brown challots & garlic in pan (approx 1 min)
2. add zest of 1 lemon - fry approx 30sec
3. add cup or so of bacon or fish stock
4. add a few table spoons of olive oil from some deli olives
5. add the olives
6. reduce for a while till you have the qty you want
7. tip out & then fry the tuna steaks in the bits left behind

servce sauce ontop of fish with salad.... voila!

B

Christmas day 2009 .... Noosa beach

Bush fire in noosa

Daunting..... Noosa heads park land on fire

Kipper breakfast

Possum comes to view the goings on ....

Sinister ben

Only happens once in a while, think it has to go

Who says we can't be cultured at volley...... Chilling with jazz

this is a test blog

i realise its been ages since i've written on here, i'm always on
twitter anyhow benjyforrest ....

Yellow leaves..... Help

What on earth am I doing wrong?

Ugh cold!

present ideas... rude or not, discuss

i can never work out if its considered rude, but considerate at the same time, to let other people know, that when the birthday is around the corner, these are the things you may be thinking about buying anyway, and would make a great gift.... oh well

• family guy dvd's... starting from series 1.... going to build up the entire back catalog ... there is a 7 series box set, but that would be over doing it... maybe series 1-6 (ebay.com.au or ezydvd.com.au)
• ipod nano 'sock' ... each stop the new player from getting scratched
• an ipod shuffle - mine died... happy with the "old" type to be honest. nano is JUST too big to jog with....
•  new aston martin vantage... be quick only 700 made... just kidding.. but phwore...

Yuck seaweed

Appaulling storms which have ruined several volleyball courts, and subsequently caused todays tournament to be cancelled, brought a stack of ugly seaweed!

Crap weather time todo all the chores outstanding for many months ...

Finally some chill time on the beach

A frantic number of weeks, doing 1.5 jobs, missing the morning before work time that seems to have disappeared, turning into early bus rides to north sydney. Luckily a few cycle in have kept me sane but not quite the same as breakfast at a cafe catching the ferry and strolling into work at 0930.....
So today, Sunday down the beach. A warm sunny day. Finally. Some beach volleyball, before alas, having to hit the laptop later this arvo.
The only problem...... The shark alarm has just gone off. Seems its a bit of a regular occurance over this summer. Another attack this morning. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/01/2504173.htm?section=australia readers will be glad ocean swims have been distinctly less regular!

First POETS of 2009 a great success despite the credit crunch

numbers were limited for the inaugural 2009 POETS lunch (P!ss Off Early Tomorrow is Saturday). The location, Machiavelli's in the city. A normally highly austere location for local business men , to become the start of a fairly gregarious afternoon of frivolity. From planning a month before where the bullish responses over beers led to original bookings for 15 people, the final 6 turned up to enjoy some absolutely superb Italian food, the John Dorey special of worthy mention.

Unfortunately the 6th, the German living Kiwi, Andy, had a rare slip in German efficiency had his flights changed to arrived the morning after the big event. Thus, a small fluffy kiwi bird was given the Andy title and well received by not only the local staff who proceeded to not only try and serve him Veal Parmaggiana (sp?), but almost responded to request for a bowl of bird seed.  

Unbeknownst to the lunching buddies, Andy was to provide a whole evening of entertainment at the Ivy, Establishment, the Dolphin, but alas not Manly Wharf.... couldn't get in, far too drunk by then! The local inhabitants of the various locations, responding incredibly well to ensure that "Andy" had fun, despite his actual lack of presence...

all photo evidence here.... http://picasaweb.google.com/ben.forrest/POETSFeb2008# 

Open air cinema!

A wonderful idea, especially when its not raining! A cinema screen on the water. Amazing backdrop. Pretty good food. The movie...... Not bad either "yes man"