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A broken gate and dinner tonight

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It’s been an interesting weekend. Yesterday I got on my bike and went for a ride http://runkeeper.com/user/garydlum/activity/56216665

Last night I saw Real Steel http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433035/ I enjoyed the movie. I’d recommend it to anyone.

This morning was cool and dry for this http://runkeeper.com/user/garydlum/activity/56327108

There was drama in the apartment block when it looks like someone clipped the gate controlling access to and from the car park.

The car park gate from inside

The rail has been pulled out of the concrete. There are broken bolts on the concrete.

This is a close up of the what has gone wrong.

Tonight I had a lamb fore quarter chop meal planned (again). Yeah, I know I do this regularly. It’s a great meal though when I want to watch television. This afternoon I watched Casey Stoner win the MotoGP at Phillip Island and the championship. Then I enjoyed watching the Kangaroos (Australia) play against the Kiwis (New Zealand) in today’s rugby league test match in Newcastle. It was good to watch Australia play well and win the game.

Vegetables sautéing

The meat was again cheap so I enjoyed buying it and preparing it.

Lamb fore quarter chops

I love mushrooms in a slowly cooked meal.

In the saucepan before the oven cooking

I also added some rice before plating up.

Ready to eat lamb fore quarter chops, rice and vegetables

Tonight I’m looking forward to watching the Wallabies (Australia) play against the All Blacks (New Zealand) in tonight’s Rugby World Cup semi final.

Rugby and pizza

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Last night I got an invitation to a friend’s place to watch the Wallabies play the Eagles on a big screen television via cable. The local free to air channel with the rights to the rugby world cup had decided to play the NRL preliminary final game between the Brisbane Broncos and the Manly Sea Eagles. I was in turmoil. The Broncos are my team. I love that team and in other circumstances I would have watched the game.

We watched the rugby with an American friend. It was funny when I mentioned the Broncos he thought the Denver NFL team.I felt bad for him when the score line blew out. The Eagles had a few good pieces of play. They were tough.

While it’s always good to see the little macropods win a game, it was an expensive game in terms of injuries and a really poor kicking performance.

While I don’t drink alcohol, there was lots of American wine and we had dips and chips and then home made pizza. It was awesome. Sadly my photography efforts with an iPhone are not that good.

Dip, cheese stuffed peppers, chips and cheese

Pizza and a rocket salad

Pizza and rocket salad with parmesan and apple

I now don’t feel like breakfast.