My dishwasher is kaput. My knight in jeans and a black hoodie - aka DD - arrived yesterday morning to try and fix it. He ended up calling the manufacturer and got it working. But halfway through the cycle it went on the blink again. Cue another round of bailing the bloody thing out with... Continue Reading →

Was anyone else a little freaked out by the PM's announcement that he was beefing up Australia's defence capabilities by spending $270 billion to protect us in the “dangerous“ post-COVID-19 world? Far out it unsettled me. "We have not seen the conflation of global economic and strategic uncertainty now being experienced here in Australia, in... Continue Reading →

I forgot to tell you - a burly family popped over to my house on Saturday, hefted my art deco lounge suite into a trailer and drove it away. One of the blokes was so burly he simply wrapped his arms around an armchair, straightened up and strode out the door with it. The family... Continue Reading →