LRD does Triple J

It's Triple J Hottest 100 day (known to some as Australia Day). I'm just back from SOCSPO and am having a few vinos and ... ok, doing laundy and cleaning the house but I did just come back from leave... listening to the awesome countdown.

Twitter's been the place to be this year with each song being tweeted as soon as it's played on the radio (gone are the days of "what was that song again?"). Check out their website here.

Personally, I find a lot of the best Aussie songs are earlier in the countdown so was glad I caught the tail end first. Lots of Bliss n Eso (best hip hop outfit EVER), Gypsy and the Cat, Arcade Fire, and Art vs Science. The latter made the top ten with the rather bizarre "Magic Fountain". Special mention also to Evil Eddie for the fantastic "Queensland".

For the record:
100 - Neutron Star Collision by Muse
50 - One Life Stand by Hot Chip
25 - Eyes Wide Open by Gotye
20 - Sunday Best by Washington
10 - Somebody To Love Me by Mark Ronson feat. Boy George
5 - Fall At Your Feet by Boy & Bear

Yes, that's right. The top 5 song is a f**king remake. That's just terrible. It's not even a good version of the song. What the hell is the world coming to?

3, 2, 1... *drum roll*

Number one song is... Big Jet Plane by Angus And Julia Stone

And it beat out Rock It by Little Red to do it

Happy 100 day everyone...

PS - What's with the "Barbara Streisand" song?

It's a mountain. Let's cycle down it.

So, I'll be honest. When I first booked to go to SOCSPO in beautiful Hobart, I thought "downhill cycling on Mount Wellington, sounds like fun". And then I remembered that I'm the type of person who thinks an exciting thing to do on Sunday morning is drink tea in bed. And then I got up on Sunday morning and it was the most perfect, most amazing day ever seen.

Hobart in summer is often cold and rainy but this was stunning - sunny, 32 degrees, little wind. How could I not... careen headlong down a 1271 metre mountain?

Was definitely not fit enough for this but loved it anyway. Here's some piccies of beautiful Mount Wellington...




Photo: Hobart and surrounds from the summit of Mount Wellington



Freycinet today

Great day today. First day of SOCSPO (at least for me). Official opening ceremony is tomorrow but today I went to Freycinet. Beautiful weather - perfect weather! We stopped at the town of Ross on the way up - lovely historical place - and then kept going through Oyster Bay (not the NZ one with the good vino!) to Freycinet.

Photo: Historical town of Ross



The national park is just beautiful and we stopped at Freycinet winery on the way back and had some vino. Lovely cold weather grapes and a good day overall.

Photo: Freycinet national park

SOCSPO... here we go...

SOCSPO is the social and sporting carnival held every three years for staff, family and friends of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statistics New Zealand. Hobart will be the venue for the 2011 carnival, which will be held from 16 to 22 January 2011.

And here I go...