Remember the cruise that screwed me over by substituting a visit to Norfolk Island with three days at sea and BRISBANE? Well, to rub salt into the wound, one of my favourite bands - New Order - has just announced an Australian tour next year ... and the dates are exactly when I'm stuck at... Continue Reading →

You've probably heard the term 'quiet quitting', where employees gradually disengage from their work without explicitly resigning. It usually involves putting in the bare minimum effort to keep your job, but not devoting any extra time or energy to your role. I would be terrible at quiet quitting my job because my responsible gene is... Continue Reading →

HouseGoesHome celebrated its 14th anniversary a few months ago. Wow, that's a lot of blog posts ... and most of them filled with fluff and blather. The blog has become a repository of my exploits and thoughts over the years. It's an open-to-the-world, online diary where I scribble entries each week. Those musings come in... Continue Reading →

I don’t usually go to the office on a Wednesday, but we had new members of the comms team starting yesterday. One of them is a former Olympian, so cool! She ran the 400m race in Rio and the relay. Aside from meeting them, I also needed to collect the first copies of our annual... Continue Reading →

I represented my team at an awards ceremony yesterday. While it was a proud moment when we accepted our trophy, it was the win by a woman at another agency that brought tears to my eyes. A staff member at the Office of Sport was lauded for introducing the Duke of Edinburgh award program to... Continue Reading →

I an a proud member of Gen X, the segment the population born between 1964 and 1981. We grew up without mobile phones, there was no internet, we didn’t even have colour TV until 1975 and helicopter parenting was so not a thing. We were called the "latch-key generation" because our mothers were among the... Continue Reading →

This is how the diet is going ... literally minutes after I published my blog post on Friday about showing restraint I got a very tempting email from DD. It was offering two tickets to a very special event called "Taste of the House" at Sydney Opera House. Taste of the House is held on... Continue Reading →

I’ve been gradually gaining weight over the past few years, which has accelerated lately due to having tendonitis. The orthopedic surgeon told me to give up the gym, stop climbing stairs and avoid doing anything that might put a strain on my frayed tendons. He also suggested I attend physio-cise classes, which I have so... Continue Reading →

Did we learn nothing from Contagion? Did we learn nothing from the pandemic? It’s been driving me absolutely bonkers to see people sneeze and cough into their hands then touch buttons, handles, railings, escalators … I keep wanting to yell “elbow!” at them. Elbow! Elbow! I thought things would be better in Japan, but there... Continue Reading →

DD is still recovering from me making him fly home from Taipei in the cheap seats. Actually, they weren't cheap at all, even in Economy Class. And Economy Class on Cathay Pacific turns out to be pretty squeezy in both seat width and leg depth. DD is very much average height and even his knees... Continue Reading →