...and is posting about it on their blogs. Mine's nearly gone but it was a refreshingly old fashioned head cold: none of this modern "gastric flu" business, it just crawled up into my sinuses and throat and robbed me of the will to do anything but lie around for three days ( Read more... )

On Friday MC and I drove to the Hunter Valley for a family wedding. I've spent lots of time in Newcastle but never been to the Hunter - probably because the Newcastle visits were all for family reasons, it's my ex-wife's hometown, and so I was always too busy taking the kids to visit people ( Read more... )

I'm shopping around for a new car. My current car is twenty this year, so "new" to me means something made this century. It's probably going to be a secondhand fleet sales Corolla with a year left on the warranty: something smallish but with a little room for expansion, since I want it to last till the girls are all in their teens ( Read more... )

Watched Idol for the first time this year last night. I have to say that Kyle Sandilands is a bit of a disappointment in his role as the hanging judge. I was thinking that Mark Latham's rants about the sad sate of the Aussie male were just more evidence that he really is quite unhinged - it's never a good sign when a bloke starts banging on about ( Read more... )