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The papers in Melbourne this week are a buzzing with the departure of Victoria's highest paid public servant ( Read more... )

So I am roused from my delicate slumber by an incessant and very masculine knocking on the front door. oothoona being slightly more awake (on account of having had significantly more sleep) does a mad scramble for the door, pulling clothes on in the process. Through the heavy fog of sleep, I hear something about "two men and a delivery" and "Have you ( Read more... )

So myself, oothoona and mikey are on a road trip from Canberra to Sydney on Friday night, and we pull up to the M5 tollbooths.
Standard mad panic to get into the right lane and find appropriate money (Is it just me or has the toll gone up recently? I remember it being two dollars and quite a bit, not three thirty. GST?). Stop. Watch amusedly as mikey struggles to ( Read more... )