A Tribute to My (soon-to-be) Dead Cat

Mar 14, 2016

This week my family and I made the excruciating decision to put our old, family cat down. I have a lot of feelings about this - too many to express in ordinary words. So many, in fact, that I can’t speak about this out loud yet and even writing it down is difficult. Let me explain a thing or two here. Cobweb, said old, family cat, was bought as a birthday present for my mother, Patty. My father, Mike, found her adoption papers the other day and we now know for certain that she has been in our

Last Train to Canberra

Jun 14, 2015

Every day, as I commute to work, I cross Sydney Harbour four times (I know it sounds crazy, I promise it’s the most efficient way.) But today it was different... Today I am getting a train down to Canberra. The nation’s (freezing) capital city is now home to one of my dear, dear friends and their new house needs to be warmed. So, here I am crossing the bridge… I swear there’s another layer to the majesty of the harbour bridge, the buildings in the CBD are more decorative – they glitter in the

It's a Mystery

Sep 16, 2015

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a mystery on our hands! Be warned, contained herein is a number of things that may not entirely make sense... I just spent a weekend with a group of nearly 50 people in a hotel. This particular group descends on the same hotel every year at approximately the same time of year, every year for the last two decades. It's tradition to either drive or take the train, driving takes about 2 hours, the train can take about 3 hours. This is partly the story of how we can't

The Walk of Shame

Jun 24, 2015

I tried something new this morning. I tried walking to work. You see, I woke up in a house much much closer to work than my own house, so I thought may as well just wander down the street - who needs a bus for a 30 second journey? Turns out, walking is stupid. I hate it. This all started because I had a boozy night at my friend's house and it got to 1am and we thought there's no sense in my going all the way home (15 minutes by taxi in the middle of the night) only to come all the way back for