The only redeeming feature I can find about being A Certain Age is that I can blame my failing brain cells for forgetting all kinds of shit left, right and centre. The situation is dire if it’s taken me three weeks to remember to post photos of cake.
I toddled along to the Dutch bakery from [...]
I’m like every other person on the road when I say with conviction that I’m a good driver. It’s all those other slow, blind and stupid bastards who cause accidents.
However, I’m driving like a nuf-nuf at the moment. I’ve been allocated my daytime job manager’s work vehicle to look after while he’s away for a [...]
I finished the job during the week and seem to have survived the ostracism, politics and lack of support from one small segment and more appreciation and warmth than I probably deserve from everyone else. The universe has given me a cold, bronchitis and laryngitis in a two-week period, which is its way of telling [...]
Something that’s been on my mind lately is the conservatism of hosiery designers. For the past few centuries, sock design and construction have changed barely an iota, as Exhibit A demonstrates:
See, I nearly made myself fall asleep. Now, consider Exhibit B, my twenty-first century sock design for the next few hundred years:
Several things [...]
I went on a little road trip yesterday to the Gippsland area to have dinner with a friend. I got lost. Instead of going right, left, straight, right, left and straight during the daylight to get onto the longest and best-signposted road in our country, I ended up two hours later in the dark on [...]
Growing up in this part of the world, the occasional Sunday family things to do were go to the Frankston trash’n’treasure, head off to a day at Leisureland on the outskirts of Frankston or perhaps go to the Caribbean Gardens somewhere out in the far eastern suburbs (it’s like Paddy’s Market in Sydney or any [...]
I travelled to the city yesterday for a course. The journey was smooth, the course was beneficial and we finished early.
Stuff changed.
On the crowded train home I ended up wedged vertically with some rather smelly specimens of humanity and the loudest man in the history of mobile phone usage [...]
You know you’re tired when you:
grab deodorant and face cream during the morning routine but, with only two options, swipe your face with the deodorant
have two diaries yet forget the only meeting of the day until the meeting keeper drops by and asks why you’re still at your desk, and he doesn’t understand see the [...]
I’m trying to write about interesting news stories stashed in my bookmarks, but can’t concentrate on anything but the carnival of weirdness around me.
Example: How many people’s mothers plan to have a family cat taxidermied after little Fluffy [1] has gone to heaven? Mine [2].
Updated example: How many people’s mothers have changed their minds, [...]
It’s 11am and I still haven’t decided what to wear. Oh, how to dress up for International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
The beauty of being an adult with no children is that a parent has no right to say, “You’re not going out like that,” and kids can’t say, “There’s no way you’re going out [...]
