I got my haircut just before leaving Australia on July 1 and, until last week, hadn't had it cut since. Okay, so it's only been four months but as you can hopefully see from the image above it was developing nicely into a Steve Winwood style, with a touch of bogan at the back. Normally I keep it pretty short however and the major question was whether I would be able to stop myself from getting it cut before returning to Australia, presumably looking a little more like Tom Hanks in Castaway . I needn't have troubled myself worrying about it. Last Thursday night I got a call from an American friend named Sean, with whom I share quite a few musical tastes, and with whom I had some great conversations that night in the suitably-named Ho Bar in Hongdae, including one where we assigned 1970s bands to colours of the rainbow. Six shots of tequila, five beers and two gin and tonics later, I asked him whether he had a pair of clippers. Answering in the affirmative, he led me ba
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11. to have the strong believe Gouda cheese is Australian
I will have to think about this request, because as you and I both know, the truth about Gouda is that it was invented in Australia thousands of years ago and then discovered by Abel Tasman, who took it back to Holland and conveniently re-named it "Gouda", after a small town there. Since then the rest of the world has believed this incredible Australian cheese to be Dutch. Clearly there is little or no justice in the world.