First there was the Australian version of the American version of Idol. Then we had Ice Skating with People Who Have Been On TV, which nobody watched because we don’t really ice skate much in this harsh, hot land of ours. This was followed by Dancing with People You’ve Heard Of and So You Think [...]
So where was I? Yeah, that’s right, I went to Melbourne then came home and sort of just fell asleep. Melbourne was great. Good to be back in my home state. I don’t know what to make of myself sometimes because I don’t often feel very Australian and despite, or probably because of, my football-filled [...]
It’s not often I feel compelled to devote a post to a bus journey but the trip from Avalon airport into the city was an absolute doozie. I’ve long had some kind of weird fascination for bus drivers, specifically coach drivers. On every school trip we went on, we’d call our bus driver Barry. The [...]
We had some Arnott’s assorted biscuits at work today. The girl I work with had her first teddy bear biscuit. Ever. She took it from the tin and said “ooh, these look a bit dodge…” and I said “what, have you never had one before?” And it’s not that she had been avoiding them all [...]
So, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Yes, it’s hard rubbish collection this week and we’ve put our old Prime Minister out on the kerb. I think it’ll be going into landfill before too long. Someone has already picked up Miss L’s old chair: the one with food stains, drink stains, [...]
It’s like waking up from an 11-year nightmare. I remember after the last election coming into work on Monday morning and the collective feeling of deflation, defeatedness and just not knowing the fuck what the rest of the country must have been thinking… I was seriously considering a move to New Zealand. Now, I’m as [...]
I both admire and loathe Alexander Downer. I admire that he’s educated and articulate and very well able to make a point; however I loathe that he seems unable to do so without coughing up a torrent of ad hominem invective. I was driving home tonight listening to PM. (Not to the PM: to the [...]
The budget has been handed down and it looks like I could save the princely sum of $14 on my weekly tax bill! How generous. That might cover about half the difference of what I was paying for petrol two years ago.
I was up well before dawn on Anzac day. Though that has more to do with being a parent of small children than it does with any kind of duty on my part to observe the significance of our public holidays. (I wrote about a similar occasion here.) We did have the TV on for [...]
It seems it doesn’t take much to raise the ire of the baby-boomer, “family-values” conservative politicians. When it does get raised, as it seems to have been following the latest notable happenings on Big Brother, we see the typical knee-jerk reactions you’d expect from media-hungry pollies with an axe to grind and a constituency of [...]
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