Okay, here’s my VCAT story. Several years ago, my father went into hospital following an accident. There were complications, and he was there for quite a few weeks. Eventually it became apparent that things had changed permanently: he was getting old (older than ever before!) and would no longer be able to live on his ... [More]
With Marita I took some time off work this afternoon to watch my friends Tony and Rae* at their VCAT hearing, as their former agents (plonkers) and landlord (only the agent turned up) tried to claim some of their bond money for (a) dents on a garage door that was part of a garage not ... [More]
Last Saturday was St Valentine’s Day. It’s been some years since I had anything to celebrate on Valentine’s Day. Fate has ruled that the last four or five of them, I have been single, so I was somewhat out of practice with the whole Valentine’s Day concept. Thus I was extra keen not to stuff ... [More]
We had cats when I was growing up, a series of them, many of whom lived to ripe old ages. The most memorable were Hepzibah, Sooty (mine) and Mischief (my sister’s, who was later renamed Eric by my mother after my sister moved out. Why Eric? Cast your mind back to Monty Python’s pet licence ... [More]
Well, here we are, 2004. As you may have noticed, I’ve been busy so far with extracurricular activities. But I won’t bore you with that. Instead let me tell you about the car. Tony got the collector’s edition version of Doctor Who: The Three Doctors for Christmas – in the special box with a toy ... [More]
Aftermath of present opening part 1 And so this is Christmas: Father Christmas delivering stuff overnight; the kids up at 7am, gleefully ripping into presents; much watching of DVDs and building of Lego; cruising over to my mum’s place for more presents, food, drink, more food, more drink, and sitting about in the garden sipping ... [More]
Yesterday’s most disturbing sight: seeing others working here (not necessarily workmates, as I don’t work with them, just near them) dressing up as Matrix characters. One woman as Carrie Anne Moss in the full black leather(ish) getup, one bloke doing a less fully-encompassing but nonetheless distinct Keanu. Disappointingly no martial arts moves, but the image ... [More]
She has incredible eyes. And hair. In fact, all of her is beautiful. She has a smile that is never far away, and a fabulous sense of humour and laugh to go with it. She laughs at all my jokes. Except the bad ones that don’t deserve laughing at. She is my age, give or ... [More]
Is this a world record? The first Christmas card for this year arrived on Monday, from one of my English uncles. I know they’ve had a postal strike recently there – maybe he was greatly concerned that if he didn’t get it into the post now, they’d call a snap strike and he wouldn’t be ... [More]
What the hell is going on? Is there something in the air? How is it that in the past week or so, no less than four friends have had their relationships end? FOUR?!? Lucky they don’t all know each other, they’d start wondering if it was a curse to know me.
Took the kids up to the snow yesterday. As per usual it was a long hard drive, but well worth it for a couple of hours’ frolicking in the snow. My back was killing me when I got home, so I’m glad it’s only an annual excursion. We stopped off in Warburton on the way ... [More]
Last night, it happened. F day. My (almost) 6 year old son Isaac dropped his first four letter word. Dunno where he picked it up from (my guess is Childcare or school). We were discussing teeth, and I pointed out his new big tooth, and he said: "It’s fucked." I didn’t believe I’d heard right, ... [More]