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I’m collecting

The fish have survived to live another day. Just now I went out and started my charity collecting. Definitely not something I’m used to. I’ve only done a few houses so far. One person wasn’t home, two people didn’t want to donate, the local vicar put in $5 (thanks Nigel), and an old dear found  ... [More]

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Unintentional fishicide

I’m hoping there hasn’t been a case of unintentional fishicide here tonight. When nobody was looking, Jeremy decided it would be helpful to feed the fish. Unfortunately his idea of feeding the fish means dumping a whole bunch of fish food into the tank, as well as (thankfully) all over the floor. The fish seemed  ... [More]

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Good deed

I’ve been psyching myself up to do a good deed. CARE Australia managed to convince me to go doorknocking for them. It’s meant to be done sometime this month. It’s only a small range of houses, from my own street, but I can’t say I’ve ever done anything like this before, so I’d been putting  ... [More]

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Visitor

Ian, a bloke I’ve known online for about three years, and met in person in Birmingham in 1999, has descended on Melbourne. Sydneysiders will find this hard to believe, but he’s been wanting to come here for years – possibly decades. Unfortunately his arrival yesterday was far from ideal. The airlines, at least the ones  ... [More]

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News and events

WTC

I was just about to go to bed last night when my sister e-mailed me: Tue 11/09/2001 23:16 "Heard about the World Trade Centre!!!! logon to the new (sic), quick!" I did so. You probably know the rest. Now almost 24 hours later, it’s still a little hard to digest. Rest assured, anyone reading from  ... [More]

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Return to sender

<Movie trailer voice> He did what nobody else would do. What nobody else dared to do. What nobody else knew how to do. </Movie trailer voice> Okay, I don’t understand. Why is it that I’m the only one in my block who knows how to write "NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS" on an unwanted envelope,  ... [More]

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Vroom

Today I almost got flattened by a car reversing at speed along the road. Luckily I had paused before starting to cross, because I’d seen a cyclist (who was on the opposite side of the road to the car, but going the same way). The car in question was apparently delivering blood to the hospital  ... [More]

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Video again

This whole VCR destruction thing may come back to haunt me for a while. I was picking Isaac up from school today… and got recognised there by some kids who were at the skateboard park a few weeks ago when Josh and I did the deed. One by one, about 4-5 of them came up  ... [More]

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Shops, videos, all that kind of stuff

I like my local shops, but just occasionally the sometimes amateurish nature of small (and not-so-small) businesses gets me down. Yesterday for instance, I noticed in Safeway that some of the cartons of milk they had for sale expired last Monday. Milk that’s almost a week past its expiry date is not excessively healthy in  ... [More]

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Father’s Day

Well, I had a great Father’s Day. I got given a card, plus a "cup of tea kit", comprising of a tea bag, sachet of milk and sugar cube, in a paper tea pot made in Isaac’s art class. Plus a gift he chose from the school Fathers’ Day stall last week, a little car  ... [More]