let me make this clear: I don't want to subscribe to your mailing list, sign up for text alerts, give you my postcode (why do you look at me funny when I say no?) I will not write you a review lovely soft

It's nearly winter solstice here and I'm stilling figuring out this new climate zone. It certainly hasn't got as cold as my old place and we are yet to have a frost. The bees are loving the scant flowers

There's definitely a romanticism to living on a boat or ship at sea, especially pirate-stylie, that is, outside the grip of council tax, electricity bills, and general taxes for living on land. The sea

We've got a new daily organiser at the school I work with and she's awesome - she's switched on, and makes sure all us relief teachers get enough work. But this week I'm told the planned three day a week

I'm very much a fan of BBC dramas - they are very well polished and easy to watch, even if the content isn't particularly your jam. In the wake of watching Louis Theroux's Manosphere documentary and award

Living by the ocean means you encounter marine creatures more than most, even though there's some you'd prefer to avoid. Whilst people might see Australia as a shark filled horror island, it's actually

On the lookout overlooking my local beach, there are locks on the fence. We've seen these before all over the world, on fences and on bridges. I've never really understood what they are for. Some of them

'Syyyyysssteeemmms, I love syyyyssstemmmmms' 🎵🎶🎵🎶 Jamie's singing. Dickhead. He's made up a daft song as he tidies up. But we are totally crowing about all the new systems we have to make life easier,

It's been awhile since I've done a gardening post, mainly because my elbow has hurt so much that it's both hard to garden, type, and take pictures. If only I had fractured my left elbow instead. On the

This week, I'm staying away from knives. Why? My best mate, who I've been connected to since we met on the school bus at 11 years old and found commonality due to hairy legs and surfing Dads, sent me a

There's a strong south-easterly wind blowing as I start my walk from the Urquhart Bluff car park to Sunnymead Beach at the beginning of Aireys Inlet. The first section is an ascent, which I'm never that

Plus an update on my fractured elbow injury...

I finished Becky Chambers 'To Be Taught, If Fortunate' this week shortly after rewatching Interstellar, and the pairing turned out to be unexpectedly revealing. I loved the book, so much so I messaged

On Sunday we went out walking from our place into the heathland and national park which is only one block away from our street, up a slight hill. We are always looking for reasonably short works, say an

Our drive to work takes 40 minutes, and though people say that's a long commute, we don't mind - half of it is bush, there's only one set of traffic lights, and it's the road that takes us back to paradise.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about work, and what we’re all actually chasing. A friend of mine was recently made redundant after fifteen years with the same company. She's in her mid-50s, a time notoriously

Every week, we're going to post a challenge early in the week just to give you some writing inspiration. As the weeks go by, we'll also list previous weeks topics, so that if you missed one that you wanted

I was sitting in my physio’s office the other day looking at this beautiful photograph of Bells Beach. One of those classic views looking across the bay — the headland, the road curling up the hill to

After reading @agmoore's and @azircon's post about investing wisely in property, I thought I'd add my own thoughts. Whilst I live in Australia, the general idea is the same - is your area prone to natural

There's a number of things that a zombie film does, apart from providing jump scares and satisfying people's need for horror. They can critique society, such as Dawn of the Dead where the characters hide