Even if you haven’t seen the movie And, you know about the opening scene. Everybody knows about it, when a boy in a yellow raincoat runs down the street with his paper boat. The boat falls down a storm-water drain and is no more. The boy, named George, comes across the creature And. And loves …
I saw something strange earlier today. I work at the local university, fixing air conditioners and heaters so that the students can be comfortable all the time. Did you know that the ideal temperature for places of study is actually a couple of degrees below room temperature? Not too far below it, mind you. There’s …
I live in a small apartment in Sydney’s western suburbs. I live alone, and spend the majority of my time at home because I don’t have many friends. To many this may sound lonely, but to me, I’m living the dream. I’ve never really liked socialising. I feel more comfortable in tracksuit pants than a …
With everything going on in the world right now, I’m doing my best to do my bit to help save humanity. This means staying on my property, and only leaving the house for the necessities. This has been quite an adjustment for me, as I had become accustomed to leaving my house every day before …
My grandparents are aging quite rapidly now. Obviously to me, they have always seemed old and when I was young, they were the oldest people in the world. I realise now that they were only in their late fifties when I was born, the age that my parents are now. They have seemed to stay …
I’m buying a second hand car that is still under its new car warranty. The people I’m buying it from are elderly and can no longer drive, so I’m purchasing it for an absolute bargain. Honestly the price is so cheap that when I drive it away, I’ll probably feel like I stole it. I …
For the first twenty years of my career, I was a practising plumber. Whilst I enjoyed it, my body reacted quite badly to the heat. When I was young, I put up with it. I just chalked it up to the fact that I probably wasn’t living the healthiest lifestyle possible and pushed through it. …
I’m not the kind of person to make sweeping statements, but I’m pretty sure I have the best configuration of hedges on my block, if not the whole suburb. Uniformly dense, green and coiffured to perfection, my hedges stand out from the crowd. There’s really no competition; you’d think no one else was even trying. …
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t really like tattoos. I know it sounds backwards and that I don’t want people to express themselves, but this is me expressing myself. I’m all for people doing what makes them happy and making statements to the world, but personally I just think they look ugly. …
My Great Aunt Mabel just called in at my workplace to tell me she’d won complimentary scones for a month at her favourite tea shop – something about filling in a customer feedback survey and getting all the answers right. While I was happy to hear this good news, I was in the middle of …