Long black coffee from Gourmet to Go in Eagle Street, Brisbane CBD

Di Bella long black coffee from Gourmet to Go -- a pretty decent coffee actually

Di Bella long black coffee from Gourmet to Go — a pretty decent coffee actually

Di Bella long black coffee -- a plain cup, but pretty decent coffee

Di Bella long black coffee — a plain cup, but pretty decent coffee

Gourmet to Go in Eagle Street in the Brisbane CBD

Gourmet to Go in Eagle Street in the Brisbane CBD

Why is it that when I ask for a long black coffee, I am sometimes asked whether I want milk with it. That would make it a flat white coffee wouldn’t it?

Cranes on the Brisbane CBD skyline — where are they?

Former Premier of Queensland, the late Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was reported to measure the state’s prosperity by looking out his window in the Parliamentary Annex and counting the cranes on the Brisbane CBD skyline.

I have been working from a client’s office in the Brisbane CBD recently and it dawned on me — there is only one crane on the CBD’s skyline. What does that say about the current state of Queensland’s economy?

Only one crane on the Brisbane CBD skyline

Only one crane on the Brisbane CBD skyline