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Suburbia

For the last 12 months of so I have been hearing a bird call which simply doesn’t belong in suburban Sydney. Sure, we have this forest-y area down the road, but this bird sounds like the forest it escaped from was one in Malaysia or Singapore or Indo…

Kicking Some Aquatic Butt

I spent today at TTM’s school swimming carnival. Given that I am no longer working for someone else, this is the first time I have been able to attend in years, and the first time ever that I haven’t had to take time off to do so.
TTM has never re…

Black Crow

Aquarius is a curious sign.
At one end of the spectrum is a structured thirst for knowledge, at the other end are some super crazy off the wall ideas.
On Monday morning my 2nd favourite Aries male (my BMF) found tucked into his screen door a black env…

Aimer jusqu’a l’impossible

Can you smell that whiff of saccharine? Yep, today is Valentines Day, that day when lovers everywhere pay homage to the patron saint of greeting card manufacturers, chocolatiers, florists and restaurants everywhere who think it is ok to pay triple the…

King of Wishful Thinking

The world has gone mad.
In Europe, record low temperatures are freezing the canals of Venice, causing the closure of ancient monuments like the Colosseum and causing death and havoc across the continent.
Here in Oz, Sydneysiders have been reaching for …