Our holiday to a remote island off the north east coast of Australia was supposed to be our last trip away as a family. The kids are getting older now, and soon they won’t want to come on vacation with us. For this reason, we thought we’d make is an extra special holiday, and went …
I’m sure that many of you would say that the worst thing that can happen is a house fire, right? Not only do you see everything you’ve worked hard to buy, build and preserve razed to the ground by brilliant apocalyptic flames, but you lose all of your photo albums. It’s like having your history …
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I have aged incredibly well, I must say. Sometimes I even impress myself. All of the old folks around this home place all sit around and stare out the window or play checkers. Sometimes there’s Bingo, but I’ve never been able to stomach a game where the entire point is to just hang around for …
I’ve just inherited my grandmother’s house. She was a lovely person, she had the best, kindest heart, but towards the end of her life I think she was starting to go senile. I think she was losing her senses as well, she was definitely going blind and deaf, so I imagine her senses of smell …
I’ve worked in delivery for twenty-odd years and I have to admit that I’ve seen a heck of a lot of packaging in my time. I’ve handled it, tossed it against doors and placed it into outstretched hands. I’ve done all kinds of things involving packages and deliveries. In fact, I’m becoming a bit of …
Recently the drains in my bathroom bust. It was disgusting, there was smelly sewage water everywhere, even dripping from the roof and spurting out of the wall, and none of us knew why or where it was coming from. When we called up to find companies who repair blocked drains, Melbourne CBD area, the guy …
It has been interesting working for a company that has money. At my old job I was given a $200 budget for office supplies. That’s per month. It did not go very far in terms of supplying all thirty five employees with stationery and office equipment for a week let alone a month. Since I …
Okay. This is bad. This is really really bad. I’ll go back and start from the beginning. Over the last couple of months, my dad has been teaching me how to fish. It’s kind of a big deal, we haven’t been close … well, pretty much ever, and fishing was always something he did with …
I’ve come up with what, in my humble opinion, is up there with the most brilliant ideas of the planet (Einstein’s theory of relatively ain’t got nothing on this). Well, to be honest, while it did pop into my head one day (while in the shower if you must know … I always seem to …
Our six year old daughter is very inquisitive. She’s at that stage where she asks a million questions and comes up with the craziest ideas. When we were arranging to get our tree lopped down by an arborist service in Melbourne, she immediately had to know all about it. We got onto the topic of …