Europe has its mojo back...At least, that’s what Tom Baker found on the ground at this year’s Paris Motor Show, where some of the continent’s biggest marques took the fight to the Chinese brands that have dominated the electric market in the last few years. That’s not to say BYD, Zeekr, Denza, and XPeng simply rolled over, mind you. Hybrid V6s, ludicrously quick electric sports cars, and claims of just a nine-minute charge time stole the headlines in the French capital, and the battle for the future of motoring is looking considerably more interesting. Good. At the end of the day, it’s you, the consumer, who wins.
I played golf on the weekend and had a nice time,but not as good a time as Kris Clelland - who shot an albatross and a hole-in-one in back-to-back holes at Sydney’s Lynwood Golf and Country Club on Sunday. The odds? 1 in 72 billion. His shout on the 19th hole, I reckon.
A bumpy ride..Somehow managed to book myself into a 4DX session of Street Fighter on Friday night and spent two hours being jolted, misted and mildly assaulted by a chair. Fittingly, it suited the film perfectly. The casting is outrageous, the nostalgia is strong, and I had a great time with the sheer absurdity of it all. That said, the story does feel like it’s building towards something that never quite arrives, leaving things frustratingly unresolved. Still, a solid trip down memory lane with the added bonus of seeing Volk on the big screen.
The Bledisloe is backin Sydney this weekend, and, frankly, there are few things more reliably capable of souring an otherwise perfectly pleasant trans-Tasman relationship than 80 minutes of rugby. The Wallabies welcome the All Blacks to Accor Stadium for the second Test of a two-match series, and Australia is in need of a rather substantial response after last weekend’s 50-19 thumping in Auckland. Get there early: the Wallaroos are kicking off a genuinely mad quadruple header, taking on Scotland before both Australian Sevens sides are also in action.
I'd never have thought that Michael Kors would ever make a half-decent fragrance, but here we are: I recently got my mitts on a bottle of Blue Dusk and must say it’s a plum like no other! Maybe I should start fragrance of the week posting?
9 in 10 Aussies are holding onto clothes they never wear..That’s an estimated $15 billion worth of unworn gear gathering dust nationwide. To help give those forgotten threads a second life, Uber and Australian Red Cross are bringing back their annual Clothing Drive this Saturday, offering free doorstep pickups between 10am and 4pm across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra. Bag up your clean, quality pre-loved clothes, book a free Uber Courier through the Uber or Uber Eats app, and send them on their way. Last year’s drive collected 125,000kg of clothing, so if you’ve been meaning to clear out that pile of jackets, jeans and questionable impulse buys, now’s your time to shine.
