On the weekend I put six pairs of gardening gloves into the washing machine. (That’s three pairs each for all the gardening members of my household. A tad excessive you might think – but they date back to a couple of working bee days we’ve had where volunteers turn up to assist with more-than-two-person renovation […]

In the course of a conversation: He says: “You’re a regular Humphrey Bear aren’t you, Marita?” She says: “I’m a what?” He says: “You’re just like Humphrey Bear.” She says: “Oh.” Pause. She says: “OK, so just what do you mean?” He says: “Well, you lead a very exciting life.” She says: “Oh, just shut […]

My workplace is salubriously located a few doors down from a brothel. It’s mostly quite unassuming (except for the name of the establishment which is painted in large letters on the front window – thereby not really constituting what is usually thought of as ‘unassuming’ at all). By and large however, it’s pretty discreet. Its […]

Moseying down the street to catch the train to work this morning I noted a new sign at the corner of a largish intersection. In flashing lights it urged drivers to ‘Give way to peds’. I did a double take having initially read it as ‘Give way to beds’ (and given my recent sightings of […]

Bad pasta. Food poisoning. Felt miserable. Threw up. Other stuff. Went home. Better now. Sort of.

My new driver’s licence arrived in the post yesterday (or ‘Driver licence’ as the card is actually entitled.) For the last week or so I’ve been using a signed piece of paper with a receipt for $40 stapled to it in lieu of the usual plastic card with my photo on it. An interim measure […]

Walking the dog in Footscray Park is always a bit of an adventure. There’s all the usual park type stuff along with a lot of detritus which, generally speaking, should have bypassed the park and gone straight to the bin. Typically, this is the stuff the dogs love the most. Today we discovered a new […]

Tonight I saw not one, not two, but three mattresses at various moments during my trip home from Uni. The first, a fetching blue and white striped number, was heading in a westerly direction on the Sydenham line train. The second, a garish floral number, was again heading in a broadly westerly direction near the […]