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30 January, 200731 January, 2007

Abbotsford man gets underwear brief at girlfriend’s instigation

You heard it here second folks (first was the Herald Sun). Please Adam, Abbotsford Blog needs a photo of you! The Hun article says:

‘WE’VE had Victorian Travis Fimmel in his smalls as a Calvin Klein poster boy; now, it’s Adam Baker’s turn.

The Abbotsford personal trainer/barman beat hundreds of hopefuls around the nation to be the first “face” of Alpha Male underwear.’

“I was quite a stunned mullet when I was told,” said Baker, 25, whose girlfriend, Rachael, entered him in the competition.

“I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t until I had a few follow-up calls that I realised it was legit.”

Baker, who can be seen in the brand’s ad campaign at K mart, won himself a “truckload” of undies.

“I only have to do underwear washing once a month now, so that’s pretty handy,” he said.’

Thanks go to Peter Volsky of Virginia for the photo.

14 January, 200714 January, 2007

Tap dancing and african drumming in Abbotsford

Snap! by Lauri Apple, a temporarily New Yorker and law student.

I put what success I have had in my career down to the claim on my curriculum vitae that I was the co-founder of the Melbourne University African Drumming Club. As far as I know, that is still going strong. And having travelled through West Africa to Timbuktoo, and listened, entranced to a guy singing along to the accompaniment of his own kora playing in a petrol station in Dakar, I read with particular interest in The Age today about the African drumming and dance academy within a couple of hops of my house, in Hoddle St, Abbotsford: Continue reading “Tap dancing and african drumming in Abbotsford”

18 December, 2006

Two nuns formerly of Abbotsford Convent get a big interview in The Age

The Age has a big full page spread today on the Convent in general, Catherine Kovesi’s book on the history in Australia of its Sisters of the Good Shepherd, and in particular, two former nuns, Sister Monica Walsh who entered the order aged 18 in 1963 and Sister Noelene White, neither of whom these days live in nunneries or wear habits but are, nevertheless, still nuns. There have been no additions to the order in the past 20 years. It’s really worth a read; I commend it to you.