Category: General

Summer must be coming. I just kersplatted my first blowfly for the season. It had been buzzing around the house all evening. Finally, as I was reading a magazine in the kitchen, it landed. It was so big it may have even made an audible thump when it did so. Without moving too much to  ... [More]

Unusually for me, I had two dreams last night (I normally can’t remember any). One was that much of the continental United States had been wiped out overnight by nuclear attacks. The other was that I’d left my car overnight with the keys in the ignition and the engine running! 11pm. Don’t you hate it  ... [More]

I like most of my mum’s tastes in music. And I like my mum – in fact I like both my parents. But sometimes it’s comforting to know that I don’t have identical tastes to them, and that I’m not turning into them just yet. Last week I lent my mum and her partner a  ... [More]

Oh dear, my cynicism towards politics is really showing this week, isn’t it.

Have you ever played the "work out what this advertisement is for" game? It’s where you have to work out what an unfamiliar ad is advertising, before it becomes blindingly obvious. I’ve been playing it a bit recently, because I don’t watch a great deal of commercial television. But now it’s moved to another medium.  ... [More]

I just gave Ian a lift to the airport. It’s obvious that since the September 11th attacks in the US, airport security has been beefed up. There are signs all along the driveway telling you not to leave your car unattended, for instance. Well there’s another interesting sign, part of a long-running advertising campaign with  ... [More]

Anybody out there looking for a new hobby? Josh put me onto this a while ago: the EPA have a form with which you can dob in slobs who throw rubbish out of their cars while driving. You fill in the form with the car details and send it to them, they send out a  ... [More]

October already? Where has the year gone? The weather was glorious over the weekend. Suddenly it feels like summer is here, even though it’s only peaked at around 28°C. Enough for my English mate who is visiting to be sweating like a pig. Myself, I’ve been roaming around in shorts half the time. I was  ... [More]

The fish have survived to live another day. Just now I went out and started my charity collecting. Definitely not something I’m used to. I’ve only done a few houses so far. One person wasn’t home, two people didn’t want to donate, the local vicar put in $5 (thanks Nigel), and an old dear found  ... [More]

I’m hoping there hasn’t been a case of unintentional fishicide here tonight. When nobody was looking, Jeremy decided it would be helpful to feed the fish. Unfortunately his idea of feeding the fish means dumping a whole bunch of fish food into the tank, as well as (thankfully) all over the floor. The fish seemed  ... [More]

I’ve been psyching myself up to do a good deed. CARE Australia managed to convince me to go doorknocking for them. It’s meant to be done sometime this month. It’s only a small range of houses, from my own street, but I can’t say I’ve ever done anything like this before, so I’d been putting  ... [More]

Ian, a bloke I’ve known online for about three years, and met in person in Birmingham in 1999, has descended on Melbourne. Sydneysiders will find this hard to believe, but he’s been wanting to come here for years – possibly decades. Unfortunately his arrival yesterday was far from ideal. The airlines, at least the ones  ... [More]