The Population Race

There was a wealth of interesting information in the Census release yesterday. The snippet that caught my eye was the population race between Sydney and Melbourne.

Review: Going to the Footy

A few weeks ago I took the twins to a blockbuster match between a team in blue jerseys starting with 'New' and a team wearing a shade of red.

New South Wales also played Queensland in State of Origin the following week. We went to Newtown Jets versus Illawarra (not) Steelers at Henson Park instead. 

Stuff My Kids Say, Part Six

So the other day J stopped playing, walked up to me, and said this...

Hot NRL Newz~! May 2017

All of the hottest takes on State of Origin selections!

Pictured: Classic Origin moment of Sam Thaiday running faster
than for any of his hit-ups to make the fight numbers uneven. Could be
from literally any Origin he's played in.

Stuff My Kids Say, Part Five

My twins boys R and J are almost four years old. They say stuff. It's sometimes funny. Here's a picture of them:

There is also a ten-month old named O. He doesn't do much yet, but he does make a cameo appearance in one story here.

NRL Representative Round - Earth Team

With four mens rugby league Test matches on in 24 hour period this weekend, I thought I'd name my Earth team, for a hypothetical game against some other planet. Probably Uranus, for the LOLs.

LOL.

My alternate column idea to mark the representative weekend was trying to guess the 50 or more players that withdrew due to "injury" from City v Country consideration, almost all of which will make a miraculous comeback for their next club match. This debacle, on top of four clubs overtly banning their players from playing in the fixture, is further proof that it is coaches that run the game, entirely to benefit their immediate narrow interests.

City vs Country is dead. The international calendar is diluted. Club coaches would block players from playing State of Origin if it they thought they could get away with it.

Fortunately they can't influence selections for the Earth team either.

Planet Earth is the only object with
more power and influence in RL than
Des Hasler and Ricky Stuart.

Here is the side...

Stuff My Kids Say, Part Four

I usually keep the story count between R & J even. I don't want them thinking I play favourites when in the future I humiliate them with all these stories.

However, it is getting increasingly difficult to keep things the same. They may be twins, but they are also individuals. They are different people.

Some differences are obvious.

One difference is that R talks all of the time, including whenever J tries to say anything. This is how I end up with four long stories involving R, and four short stories involving J. There is little opportunity for J to speak much more than one-line at a time.