My window at work overlooks a destruction/construction site and the view features a very tall and unsettlingly ‘sway-ey’ crane. At least twice a day this crane swings by the window behind me like a huge lumbering T-Rex and makes me jump. (One day the crane driver will notice us waving at him from afar.) In [...]

And today’s new word is ‘creosote’. It’s the nasty tarry build-up that accumulates on the inside of a chimney. I think my chimney needs cleaning. Sigh. I wonder if there’s a word to describe the process of cleaning a chimney that’s lost its outlet through the roofline – as mine has. Knowing my luck, the [...]

At my work, people with birthdays look after their own morning tea. Fortunately I share a birthday with a colleague, so the burden is relieved and I don’t have to stand by myself looking embarassed when everyone sings ‘Happy Birthday’. (Shudder.) It’s been a (short lived) tradition over the last two years that I make [...]

A few days of laughter, lunches and loot! With another dinner to come. I’m 36!! (PS. The incredible string of parent-provided dud Tatts tickets moves on into its fifteenth year!)

When you walk a dog in a park regularly you find all sorts of stuff. Like the film script Maisie, Daniel and I found last week. It was lying forgotten on a park bench. A quick skim revealed all sorts of wacky, zany scenarios set in and around Footscray. Neither of us can remember what [...]