After another particularly poor example of bad temper on the part of our dog, Miss Maisie, Justine, in frustration, wailed “We should’ve got a monkey.” Monkeys, we believe, would make great pets. They could be taught to make the tea. Or do the dishes. They would be handy to have about the house. Instead we […]

For the information of readers: Haighs gourmet drinking chocolate is fantastic. You can eat it straight out of the packet if you can’t be bothered with the whole heating milk thing. Wonderful.

This morning I made up a new word. Attempting to describe why our dog might last night have suddenly acquired a terrible limp (“It’s very sore ‘rita”, she said – in dogspeak) only to find it had magically disappeared this morning at the park when she met her ‘friends’, and coinciding suspiciously with the departure […]

This is what the innocuous notice in the mailbox said: “M>Trains intends to carry out essential maintenance to the tram tracks in Droop St between Geelong Road and Ballarat Rd… over one night on Wednesday 1st October.” This is what it really meant: Between the hours of 11.45 pm and 5.05 am have several trucks […]