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Aussies were purchasing traditional food too - ice cream and packets of chips....like going to a Celine Dion concert and finding that the support group is Motorhead! Indian culture truly is an amazing thing given its facets and its extensive and rich tradition. Being married to an Aussie Punjabi means that I frequently get to experience aspects of that culture. To a small minority of people that might mean having a ‘curry’ rather than a meat pie and chips! To others it could revolve around meditation, yoga or getting in touch with your spiritual self. Though to some of my friends their ‘spiritual self’ revolves around sculling a scotch and coke or three! Anyway, at the weekend just past, we decided to go to an Indian dance show that was being put on at the local civic centre. My wife and daughters got dressed in traditional clothes. My wife wore a Punjabi suit (salwar kameez) and the gals wore multi coloured lenghas. As for myself and my father in law, we decided to go in traditional c...

"I do cook a mean pizza on the bbq!...I have never worked in a cafe" As this is the first posting for my blog I thought it was a good idea to give you, the inquisitive reader, some details about myself. I suppose I have wanted to do a blog for a while now but have never gotten around to it. However, I have been inspired by a co-worker (the inimitable David Castor) who has a fantastic blog. Check it out at: http://ministryofincompetence.blogspot.com/ . So I have decided that the time is now ripe for my almighty or not so almighty blog! As promised earlier here are some facts about me that only family and some friends would know: I was born in England in a lovely (?) town called Chatham in the county of Kent. Apparently the year I was born was also the coldest winter on record. I am left handed but use my right hand when using a computer mouse, scissors, golf clubs, cricket bats etc. So I suppose I am slightly ambidextrous. I have one sister who is 3 years older than me. I came...