While I was away, Jan discovered the joys of doing your groceries online at Woolworths. It is quite amazing! You might fear that they would choose the crappiest fruit, veg and meat for you, but no, they seem to choose the best! The whole process is very easy and then costs $10 to deliver. [...]

“Even if you are not a US citizen, the November 2 presidential election will have a huge impact on your life. The very idea of democracy requires that you should have a say in choosing who determines your destiny. This site therefore allows non-Americans to vote in the 2004 US presidential election.
GLOBALVOTE2004.ORG is totally neutral. [...]

Oh my god, while looking at Australian blogs I accidentally found out who went from Aus Idol again (note to self - do NOT look at Aus blogs on a Tuesday - Friday).
I will not spoil it for others, but just wanted to express my total shock and indignation, and sadness.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE [...]

Still in shock about the Howard victory in Australia. I guess not being in the country, I was ill-prepared for how the Latham campaign seems to have floundered. And now there’ll be three more years of Little Johnny - and the prospect of a Howard-Bush victory is looming. Excuse me while I roll on the [...]

I dreamed that Pink was married to Neil Finn but carried on secret gay affairs. Neil and Pink went down the Luge at a party held at the Winter Olympics site.
That’s it!

Today is Archie’s “birthday” - as I was away for his real one, we took the parents of toddler advantage and delayed it somewhat. So all you late sending present people, your presents were right on time! He had a great time opening things in bed this morning - his favourite present from overseas was [...]

Those of you who know me well know that I am a rather, how shall we say, conservative eater. However on this trip I decided to put all that aside and deliberately ate as many weird things as I could. Here is a list of some of the highlights (for me), and the verdict…
Prawns : [...]

Well, here I am back in my little office in Point Chevalier, with a much broader mind and a much lighter wallet! It’s very nice to be home with my darling and little ratbags. I was supposed to get back at 8:45am yesterday but at about 6am our plane made an unscheduled landing in Noumea [...]

Tokyo is mindblowing. No other way to describe it! As predicted the mobile phones are completely incompatible and we have been staying in a traditional ryokan which doesn’t have a business centre surprisingly! It is an absolute shopping mecca here but rather expensive, or at least no cheaper. I did however buy a replacement camera, [...]