Ottoman and Ottowoman

The Great Entertainment Book Challenge 2010-11 is back with a vengeance. Beware hospitality hotspots of Canberra, the EB Team is coming your way with a voucher in hand. A voucher that expires on 1 June 2011 - so we may well be in a bit of a hurry. Nota Bene: You will lose marks for tardy service.

Fee and Sair visited the reliable and justifiably crowded Ottoman to celebrate Sair's birthday last weekend. We enjoyed the degustation with matching wines menu. Lovely light zuchini balls and sweet veal. In this case, the service was very attentive. So attentive in fact we would have liked to take the attentive waiter home with us. Never mind. The atmosphere on a frosty Canberra Saturday night was busy yet relaxed. We certainly brought an added touch of class to the place by starting with a glass of sparkling and loudly toasting to Fee's newly divorced status. (Hooray hooray hooray.) All in all, a success.

Last Gasp for Pure Entertainment

Sair tha Bair & Feenar are heading to Melbourne over the summer to sample the finest voucher value that fine city has to offer.

Sweet Young Thing

Saturday. Wretched visit to hairdresser using voucher. Negative Experience will require some Self Medication. Possibly up to 4 units of alcohol (chilled chardy).

A Tale of Two Cities

They were the best of times (in Melbourne), they were the worst of times (in Canberra). Yes that's right EMN! fans, in today's entertaining post, we're comparing value vis a vis Entertainment Books in Melbourne and Canberra.

Fee has recently had several entertaining, pain-free and bargain-filled Entertainment Book voucher opportunities in that fair city to the south. A soft and flavoursome rare steak with truffled mash at Chez Olivier accompanied by a soft and fruity Beaujolais - zut alors even the menu was in French mes amis, oh la la. A crisp young cool climate Riesling enjoyed with Dr Dolittle at Walter's Wine Bar overlooking the sweet waters of the Yarra, gasping, strapping rowers and Flinders St Station dome-mosque. Attentive service and honey-sweet, crunchy lamb on perfect fluffy rice at the Mask of China, before Mary Poppins at Her Majesty's. All these delights at a maximum of $40 off thanks to our friend, the Book.

Bloomin like a Rose

I used a voucher today so there Sair. I received 25% off at a nice beauty salon for a relaxing dermalogica facial and eyelash tint in upscale, trendy, no parking Ma-nooka. The one and only drawback was the salon lady's account of last night's television viewing - a based on a true story portrayal of young Irish women locked up and abused in nunneries in deepest, darkest Catholic Ireland in the worst and most ill-informed days of the corrupt pedophile priests in the 1960s. That part of the relaxing facial was a bit of a downer actually. Entertainment Value: 8/10

Snatch & Grab

The Snatch & Grab Project aka Clutch & Snap or Grab & Slap or Slap & Tickle or Hug Unassuming Hot Men in Public & Someone Take a Photo Project is proving to be an impromptu yet worthy side hobby. If only there was a voucher for 25% more shenanigans. Clearly EMN comrades and others we are dreaming. It would however make a great coffee table book one day along with all those other cutting edge bestseller book ideas that are currently taking up valuable real estate.

Now where to use our next voucher to maximise Grabs & Snaps potential? Suggestions welcome. *Note* If anyone mentions Sumo Suit Hire or Llama Farm I will personally deck you.

Keep up the good work. News of our coffee book launch extravaganza to follow.

Hugs & Slabs xx

PUNKED OH YEAH!

I told Fee that I had lost the Entertainment Book.

She started convulsing.

I told her I was joking.

On reflection I still wish I had lost the Entertainment Book. We could've workshopped the residual issues and come out the other side as better people over a lunch at somewhere swanky that is not in the Book and is therefore totally awesome.