Certain women of my vintage will recall that before stealing your dad’s razor to shave your legs the first time, you looked for something… something a little less prone to involuntary bloodletting. Not wax – I don’t even recall waxing being on my radar – no, you went and poked around in the chemist and …
It turns out that it’s not just cars that hate me, it’s trailers too. In addition to the shortage of small dogs in Tasmania, there is also a premium on trailers. It would be a reasonable earn to head to the mainland, buy up some trailers, bring them back over and sell them for a …
Parenting highlights from yesterday: Me: I have to take this frypan back to the LBT, can you wash up the lunch dishes Zoe?DB: [pulling off her headphones] Wha?Me: I have to take this frypan back to the LBT, can you wash up the lunch dishes DB?DB: But you said Zoe.Z: But you never wash up. …
Small Z has always been germ-averse. Always. I have taken great joy over the years watching her flinch when someone coughs or sneezes nearby. So of course, when a kid she’d spent all day with at school commented at the end of the day that she’d had a horrible day because of a sore throat, …
I’m not sure if it’s karma for breaking my car purchasing ground rule (never spend more than $5000 on a vehicle) or just stupid bad luck. M asserts that it is our fault for never checking the water level in the radiator; my theory is that the radiator was stuffed – which is why it …
Yeah. As accustomed as we are to being isolated for extended periods, this whole thing is getting hard. Harder for some than others. Everyone has lost the plot for short periods. I am plotting to find my own part time abode to retain my sanity… and keep things dry. Without other people, I would be …