Tuesday, December 25, 2012

CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS

It seems the popularity of the Northern Territory Government is plummeting faster than the wok Chevy Chase rode down the ski slope in the great must-see annual classic, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.  After four years of the Mills-stone about the neck of the population ,there could be a gaseous explosion as in the joyous dysfunctional Griswold family gathering. *** With so much attention on and discussion about tucker over the Festive Season , came further news about the growing Indian influence in Darwin . There is a new Indian restaurant at Stokes Hill Wharf ; there is also a Sri Lankan eatery in the Vic Hotel area . And then we noticed a car with the numberplate , PUNJAB .*** Santa brought this writer a bent spoon for stirring cafe lattes and a book EAT MY WORDS A Memoir of Politics, Pig-outs & Pickles , by journalist Mungo MacCallum .  Many moons ago, this writer swapped outlandish tales with Mungo about a certain northern scribe over libations in the non-members’ bar in the old parliament house, Canberra.