This weekend just gone has been a bit of a blast back to my childhood. Starting Friday night when I got along to see The Goodies. Like every other 30 something nerd in Australia, the goodies are childhood heros of mine, starting a love of British comedy that would later extend to everything from Monty Python to Men Behaving Badly to the Office.

It was an absolutely, face acheingly (is that a word?) night, with Greame and Tim recounting old stories and telling jokes. They should quite a bit of archival footage, from their Cambridge University days with other famous comedians such as Eric Idle, John Cleese and Marty Feldman.

Since I went straight from work to the show (via the Adelaide oval to watch the last hour of the first day of the first test) I forgot my trusty camera. Fortunately, as it turned out, we were sitting right behind some other guys from my past, Orge and Don. Orge had his camera and got a few photos, and promised to email them to me. I got to be honest though, I wouldn't stake anything valuable on the chance of me actually seeing them. Oh well.

The other blast back to my childhood over the weekend was when I was sitting out on the lawn of Karen's Parent's property at Aldinga. I was enjoying the afternoon sun and could hear the distant strains of an AM radio that they keep on in the fruit orchard to keep the birds away. It was set on Adelaide's newest radio station - Cruise 1323

I gotta tell ya, sitting around on a sunny afternoon, listening to all those classic easy listening hits of the '70's in glorious low fidelity AM, is like a time machine back to being a kid in 1981. I kept waiting for my mother to come out and serve cordial.