The Redland Shire is an southern, bayside region of Greater Brisbane (which is not the same as the Brisbane City Council - its my name for a rough area from Caboolture to Beenleigh - click here to see what I call Greater Brisbane).

The Shire has a Ladies’ drum corps - I saw them when I photoblogged Australia Day at Southbank, and Beth Connor from the Drum Corps asked me to let you know more about them.

The Redland Shire Ladies’ Drum Corps practices every Wednesday night in the carpark of the North Stradbroke Ferry Terminal. Click here to see the exact location - click here to see from a distance and click here to see up close.

Any female from 13 to 70 is welcome to join. It’s $25 every 3 months to cover uniforms and drums, and you’ll also get lessons on how to drum in the Corps. After mastering side drumming, and the basic marches and displays, you can learn tenor or bass drumming if you want.

The Corps has performed in festivals and street parades right around the Redland Shire, other parts of Brisbane, and as far away as Stanthorpe (click here to see where it is) to Murwillumbah (click here…)

If you want to start drumming with the Corps, call the Secretary, Ms Jenny Hall, on 07 3206 4765 (+617 3206 4765 from overseas).

Read more to see more pictures of the Corps from Australia Day at Southbank.

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Bunk Brisbane is a backpackers’ lodge in Brisbane’s nightlife area of Fortitude Valley. It’s on the corner of Ann St and Gipps St in the Valley, and as you can see from the picture above, there is a bus stop (citybound buses only) right outside.

Click here to see exactly where Bunk is located.

Read more to see larger pictures and more info about the neighbourhood.

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I went to New Farm Park yesterday to watch people jug. And I made my first real videoblog - that’s it just above.

Jugging is a sport that was invented in the 1990 film ‘Salute of the Jugger‘ (also known as ‘The Blood of Heroes’, starring Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen and Vincent D’Onofrio).

Jugging involves 4 people from each side hitting each other with weapons, while the fifth player on each team tries to score by running through the gaps and putting a dogskull on a spike at the end of the field.

There is an active jugging group in Brisbane that meets every second Sunday at New Farm Park. Click here to go to the details of the games at meetup.com.

Click here to see the exact part of New Farm Park you have to go to.

There are also heaps of information and photos at jugger.org.au

There’s another Brisbane jugging video on YouTube by fiendishfilms:

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Warning - there is some coarse language in the soundtrack to that one.

So what sort of sport do you like? Does hitting people with weapons to make room for the quick and his dogskull sound like fun to you? Leave a comment and let me know.

The Carnival of Cities? What? Well, a ‘blog carnival’ is when someone collects lots of blog posts on a particular topic, and posts links to them all in one place.

Home Turf Media, the publishers of Brisbane is Home, will be hosting the first ‘Carnival of Cities’ on February 19th (February 20th here). The deadline is February 18th, but if you are in Australia you might be able to get away with submitting on the morning of the 19th. Personally, I won’t be trying my luck though - my submission is already in - I’ve submitted my Australia Day post.

You can submit your best post about your city here.

What’s your favourite article you’ve written about your city? Tell everyone by leaving a comment.

Livejournal user virtualdan has just plugged Tim Steward’s free gig tonight in the Brisneyland LJ community.

The gig is at the rotunda in the Valley (Brunswick St) Mall - there will be several sets between 6pm and 9pm. Click here to see the exact location.

You can see Tim Steward’s myspace page here, and you can listen to the album How Does It End here, for free, on Last.fm

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This video clip is from Tim Steward’s own YouTube page - the song is called ‘Before’.

I’ll be in the Valley tonight, taking photos of the gig. What are your plans for tonight? If you don’t know, check out the list of Brisbane Is Home links, which includes a round up of the best Brisbane entertainment guides.

If you’ve got a story to tell about your weekends, just let me know in the comments.