State of Origin Game 2 | #QUEENSLANDER


Tonight was game 2 in this year’s state of origin series. Queensland was soundly defeated by NSW in game 1 and tonight Queensland had to fight back to square the ledger before the third and final game next month. Queensland had a great advantage in hosting the game at Lang Park. Bron invited me to […]

Queensland Pride | #QLDER #ORIGIN Game 1 State of Origin Rugby League the Greatest Game of all


Regular readers will know my passion and pride in being a Queenslander. I’ve referred to the greatest competition in the greatest game of all many times in this blog, that is, State of Origin rugby league. To all my friends and family who support New South Wales and the Blues, I’m sorry if you find […]

Back to work routine | State of #Origin 3 | #QUEENSLANDER


I’ve been back at work three days and I’m really feeling it. I normally don’t suffer badly from jet lag because of insomnia and lots of hypopnias when I sleep. Two weeks though in a time zone three hours behind Canberra has meant waking up at 4.30 am has been difficult. I’ve been feeling pretty […]

Best meal ever and #StateofOrigin Game 2


Last night Bron and I visited some close friends who we often have dinner with. Mostly it’s us going to their place to eat wonderful food. Last night was no different. In the words of Bron (and I agree), “Best meal in my life“. A few weeks ago we set up the date and started […]

Big day and a big result and shout out to @phonakins (#QUEENSLANDER #StateofOrigin)


Today was huge with back to back meetings all day. I did an hour session on record management systems and came back to the office to be greeted with cake. Readers who follow me on instagram will know I regularly post photographs of cakes and biscuits that work mates make and bring in to work. […]

Footy food and the Decider #origin #QUEENSLANDER Queensland defeats NSW 21:20


Tonight it was the decider. Last year Queensland won its sixth State of Origin series. This year Queensland won the first game and NSW won the second game. I’ve previously written that I really hope for a good close game and truth be told, as much as I wanted Queensland to win, NSW winning would […]

Food photography


So on this page I’ll upload photographs of food and other stuff that I may or may not blog about. Let me know what you think. I’d appreciate any comments on the photography. Food photography by Gary Lum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.   Thursday 2014-03-13-12-56-00 AEDT Experiment with an animated gif Related […]

Queensland Day and Bunsen burner love


Thursday 06 June 2013 was the 154th celebration of Queensland day and the day Queensland got its constitution. I had a 6 am teleconference and needed coffee View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gary (@garydlum) I like being in the office early. It’s quiet and it means I get more work done. […]

Smoked ham hock my way | #bestblogs13


In February I won a competition on radio station 2CC. I won $50 worth of meat from Elite Meats at Kippax Fair in Holt (in the North of Canberra). Today it felt like a good day to cook the smoked ham hock I chose. Elite Meats smoked ham hock View this post on Instagram A […]

Week 11 of 2013 in my Instagram life


After the last blog post last weekend I finished with an image of chicken schnitzel. Here it is cooked with some fried eggs. Yum comfort food. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gary (@garydlum) Chicken high schnitzel with fried eggs ———- On Sunday morning I had breakfast with Bron and we went […]