Juggling Olympics to run rings around Adelaide

InSider knows everyone has had a crazy week, especially today as we all work super hard and are definitely not “working from home”. So here’s a fun activity to enjoy: the fifth annual Adelaide Juggling Convention.

Need to learn how to juggle work, a social life, maybe some kids too? Well, they can’t help with that. What they can do is provide entertainment for people of all ages who are “passionate about juggling, unicycling, hula hooping, diabolo and circus manipulation skills in general”.

Jugglers, unicyclists and hula hoopers from across this wide brown land have descended upon Adelaide for the four-day extravaganza that’s on until Sunday. The convention invites people of all skills to learn, teach and juggle together.

Saturday night will see jugglers battling it out in Fight Night – a competition where contestants are challenged to juggle non-stop while at the same time trying to stop other people from juggling. InSider hoped no one brings a knife to a juggle fight but has been assured juggling clubs are used, so all hands and fingers are likely to remain intact.

If you haven’t already been drawn in, the AJC is also hosting the Juggling Olympics.

Can’t make it to Paris in July? Here’s your chance to see some of the world’s best (or at least Australia’s best) jugglers at work. InSider can’t think of a single reason why you would travel all the way to Paris when you could just go to a town hall and watch people juggle right here. InSider is also at least 95 per cent sure that the “real” Olympics don’t have any juggling anyway – which seems like a missed opportunity now that karate, baseball and softball have been dropped.

The Adelaide Juggling Convention is on until this Sunday at the Goodwood Community Centre, with tickets available online. You don’t want to miss this one.

Chucked a sickie today? You’re not alone

In bed *cough* “sick” today? Thought your plan to lounge around and enjoy a four-day weekend was unique and never done before? Well, you’re in good company.

Data from Australian app Sicky forecast a 53 per cent surge in sick leave requests for today – the day after ANZAC Day – making it the number one requested sick day of the year.

The app – which will absolutely benefit from the surge in sick leave requests today (it can provide sick notes from just a few taps on your phone) – generated the data from 102,000 patient consults since it launched in 2020.

Sicky co-founder Avinash Vazirani said today was a pretty obvious choice for workers to pick for a sickie.

“The day after ANZAC Day is a normal workday that most Australians are expected to attend, however, our data suggests there will be a spike in people calling in sick – it’s a common trend we see after every public holiday in the middle of the week, closely followed by the weekend,” he said.

“Quite often it’s because our patients have over indulged or have interacted with infectious people while socialising.”

The Sicky app data also found that during a typical Monday to Friday work week, most sick leave requests are made on Mondays (27 per cent) and Fridays (24 per cent), with the remainder split evenly between Tuesday and Thursday.

Vazirani said it was important Australians were “mindful of their respective workplace obligations and well versed in what evidence they are required to provide in the instance of taking sick or personal leave”.

We’d have a good chat about it all in the InDaily office but there’s hardly anyone here…

The answer to the red wine glut?

InSider’s colleagues at WBM – the only mag you need to know what’s happening in the wine industry – have taken umbrage at a pack of chips.

Writing in the WBM email newsletter, the editor was a bit put off by the “Special Reserve Slow-Cooked Lamb With Barossa Shiraz Ultra Deluxe Potato Crisps” from Red Rock Deli.

“Special Reserve! Please don’t tell me they are more expensive than some of the cheap Barossa Shiraz being flogged off at the moment”, they wrote, before asking who in the Barossa sold their grapes to Red Rock Deli.

“Are they from the Hill of Grace vineyard or perhaps The Laird vineyard?” they pondered, asking for anyone to email an answer to [email protected].