After the fiasco of the amazing disappearing plumber on Saturday, I’m told a replacement plumber will be here at 11am tomorrow morning. Uh huh. Watch for updates on this one! Iris spent most of the weekend packing up all her stuff. Alas, she is leaving at the end of the month – heading back to ... [More]
A very hot day with a strengthening northerly wind. A cooler gusty southwest change in the evening with raised dust and thundery showers to follow. Min 19 Max 43 – Bureau of Meteorology forecast for Sunday They predicted that Sunday would be a stinker of a day – no less than 43 degrees in the ... [More]
My landlady had claimed the plumber would be around at 2pm today to look at the problem with the shower leaking slightly into the next room. My landlady doesn’t have a great record with any kind of tradesman. While they seem to mostly know what they’re talking about when they turn up, most of them ... [More]
Well I’ve had a busy first week of the year. I was sick as a dog on New Years Eve and didn’t go out anywhere. So we spent the evening watching videos, then later I found myself tossing and turning in bed wondering if I would get hot enough to steam the sheets with my ... [More]
Happy Boxing Day. Well, Christmas was great. It started off bright and early in the traditional way, waking up to see what presents Santa had left under the tree. Then Iris and I got dressed, went and picked up the kids from their mum’s and we skedaddled off to the airport to pick up my ... [More]
On Saturday we went where no sane person dares to go at this time of year: Chadstone shopping centre. Yes, to The Mall. I wouldn’t normally bother even trying to shoe-horn myself into the place in late-December, but I had a $50 Chadstone gift certificate I needed to dispose of, preferably in exchange for goods ... [More]
Today I drove out to the airport to pick up Iris, back from her meditation course. She flew on the new airline, Impulse, which was good, because she kind of flew on… ummm… impulse. That is, it was a change from the original plan, which was to get a lift back with someone else. So ... [More]
Last week it seemed that I was evicting a lot of spiders from the house. That is, I think it’s a lot of spiders – or it could be the same one over and over I suppose. I keep spotting them on the ceiling in the living room or in the kitchen. It always seems ... [More]
"You’re a yob or you’re a wanker Take your fucking choice So who is your favourite genius James Hird or James Joyce?" – TISM’s Whatareya, from their album www.tism.wanker.com On Friday night I enjoyed a night of fine wining and dining with some work colleagues, at a very nice restaurant that I’d never have dreamt ... [More]
Tomorrow morning my lovely girlfriend Iris leaves for ten days of meditation in the Blue Mountains. She’ll have ten days without speaking, without the phone, TV, and worst of all – INTERNET! Just meditation, all day. I figure this could either be very very good, or very very bad. You might end up in triumphant ... [More]
It feels like it’s been a long weekend, even though it hasn’t. On Thursday Iris and I went to visit Josh and Cathy and Catherine’s, to eat Josh’s infamous JoshBurgers(tm). Basically a JoshBurger(tm) is a humungous meal constructed to burger-type specifications, but much larger. So large that you really need to eschew the average burger ... [More]
Joining loads of tourists on the ferry to Manly Another ferry leaves Manly Less reliable than the Manly ferry: a Qantas jumbo with broken weather radar Sunday started most pleasantly with a bus ride into the city, then joining the throngs of tourists on the ferry to Manly, which is a butch name for a ... [More]