You know sometimes you are on the train or walking in the city or just watching TV and you catch an ad that keeps you interested beyond 3 seconds? A word or particular phrase just pops out at you and you have to read the whole thing. That happened to me today. I was doing […]
Servicing for the New Pet
It’s finally time: I’m thinking of giving home to a new pet. I have the space in my home, everything is prepared and this is something I’ve been wanting to do since I was nine. My parents would never let me have one, because they had phobias and just didn’t want one around the house. […]
Ruined carpet, ruined friendship
Living with your best friend is great, most of the time. Lately, things between us have started to seem different. Savannah has recently gotten a new job at a hip new cafe down in the main part of town. She is loving it, and the people she works with all seem pretty great according to […]
A little neighbourly competition
I’m the owner of a small business in what I guess you could call a little shopping strip in Melbourne. I’ve been here for, oh I don’t know, about maybe two years now, and I’m fiercely competitive. I have a tendency to take things pretty personally, and when it comes to my business, that applies […]
Washing machines and word of mouth
Word of mouth is the best advertising. No doubt about it. People can spend all the money they want on advertising campaigns, search engine optimisation, copywriters and PR, but it all boils down to nothing if the product isn’t good. By the same token, you don’t need any of these promotional tools if you’ve got […]
Consoling the In-Laws with Cleaning
So, you’ve probably heard that a visit from the in-laws strikes terror into hearts across the globe. My situation is really no different, although I like to think that I got off to a worse start with my future father and mother-in-law than most. They had a dog, who I’m told was usually friendly. It […]
Mobile scaffolding and the misdemeanours of a misguided youth
Not many people can say they have as many regrets as I do. I was a wild one, that’s for sure, and I made a lot of mistakes that have influenced my life in the long term. I’ve got a criminal record for a misdemeanor that I committed as a teenager which has haunted my […]
The gift of firewood
If you asked me whether we had a fireplace I’d have told you no. It’s so old and so long disused that I’d totally forgotten about it. That was until one day when our neighbour across the road was getting a tree stump removal service. They’d had a tree lopped down years ago and the […]
Personally, I Blame Television
Modern naming trends give me a headache. Back when I was a girl, there were about ten girl names that people cycled through, and it made things so much more simple. If you forgot someone’s name, you just picked whatever went with your hunch. It was almost always Margaret for a decade or so, or […]
Research all-nighter
‘Sleep is for the weak’ has to be my favourite expression at the moment. It pretty much completely encapsulates how I feel about the mandatory six hours of unconsciousness my body demands from me. I’m just too busy for this and I seem to keep reaching a point where it doesn’t matter how much coffee […]