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Fireworks 

OK so you’ve had a month now to completely screw your new year’s resolutions. But just how bad have you screwed them? The following is a list of the top New Year Resolutions for 2009. 

I will get out of debt/save money more


Prison Bars

Imprisoned now for six weeks. Every so often a visitor peers through the metal bars. This is followed by a struggle with the key and the anticipation that is entangled with the possibility of someone taking me out on day release. more


2012    

  I’ve been festering away here in my lounge room for three weeks now. Flat on my back at times on a three inch thick foam mattress on the floor with no television. Imagine opening a door into my brain and peering inside. Well this morning I’ve found myself imagining a block buster disaster movie of which I am more


Old Lady

Sylvia, Phyllis and Mary, all aged over 90 years, all treated after having fallen. A broken wrist, broken hip, and just broken. My roomies for a week at Royal North Shore Public Hospital. 

Sylvia                    

A glorious tribute to the potential of aging, former figure skater, more


Earthworms 

I had a very vivid dream last night that encapsulated the ridiculousness of a self-service industry out of control. It was the future of out society… in ten years time for the pessimists, 50 years for the optimists. I’m not claiming to be Nostradamus, but I dreamt I was purchasing a coffee more


Jelly

 

I attended Bimbadgen Blues and Roots on Saturday. A fabulous day out but God knows why it is “blues and roots”. Its got nothing to do with the colour of the sky, and there’s no potatoes, parsnips or leeks on the menu… although there was quite a few people who were rooted by the end of more