I have quite a lot of gum trees down the end of my backyard, past the billy goat’s gruff bridge which runs over the creek (o.k. so it’s a really a drain, but it’s not all concreted so it looks like a creek and that’s what I’m calling it). In those gum trees live a […]

I was actually looking for the original Shiny Happy People but when I found this instead I couldn’t resist it. I defy you not to smile while you watch it. It certainly cheered me up after a less than wonderful day at work. If music can make the monsters happy, it can turn our frowns […]

I was actually looking for the original Shiny Happy People but when I found this instead I couldn’t resist it. I defy you not to smile while you watch it. It certainly cheered me up after a less than wonderful day at work. If music can make the monsters happy, it can turn our frowns […]

Imagine my surprise when reversing out of a carpark uptown (after getting a takeaway coffee) when I had to wait for a whopping great bus called “The Borg Express”. It’s a bus, with a huge friendly picture of Lawrence (Laurence?) Springborg on the side and covered in the LNP logo. I appreciate the effort in […]

Imagine my surprise when reversing out of a carpark uptown (after getting a takeaway coffee) when I had to wait for a whopping great bus called “The Borg Express”. It’s a bus, with a huge friendly picture of Lawrence (Laurence?) Springborg on the side and covered in the LNP logo. I appreciate the effort in […]

Normal programming for Wendy’s Week of TV will resume “after the tennis” (a phrase incidentally which Wendy will be happy never to hear again after Sunday’s dream Federer v Nadal men’s final). This week,however Wendy’s Week of TV has defaulted in lieu of her tennis watching obsession which included being swept up in the Jelena […]

Normal programming for Wendy’s Week of TV will resume “after the tennis” (a phrase incidentally which Wendy will be happy never to hear again after Sunday’s dream Federer v Nadal men’s final). This week,however Wendy’s Week of TV has defaulted in lieu of her tennis watching obsession which included being swept up in the Jelena […]

I think I might be a compulsive shopper. Or perhaps an impulsive shopper. That sounds nicer doesn’t it? Take me to any shop and I can find something I want to buy. This morning apart from buying groceries (boring) I have also bought the following.1. Four songs on iTunes. I had 8 dollars sitting there […]