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All hail The Hypnotoad.

I think I've discovered the exact opposite to perpetual motion ! This morning I had to go to the mail depot to pick up a couple of parcels that nobody was home to receive (don't even get me started on how much I love the Royal Mail…), and on the way from the train station…

Wow, surreal day. I bought some Blu-tack the other day, and noticed an important difference (it's the little differences that mean so much) between the English way and the Australian way: ours comes in a long narrow pack, with about 5 or 6 long strips of the stuff. Here you get a short, squat pack,…

Now this is what's called “Reserve Storytelling” – I purposefully stayed home and didn't do much this weekend in order to be able to write about what I did LAST weekend. Cos that's the kind of considerate bloke I am. As I've probably only alluded to 15 or 16 times, last weekend I went to…

Stuck at home at the minute with a couple of wannabe plumbers banging around upstairs attempting to fix SOMETHING. I'd decided that the sort of “all-rounder odd jobs men” that you get here are on the whole pretty useless, because it seems to take them 80 times longer than a specialist to get anything done….

Well, England may be famously described as “a nation of shopkeepers”, but judging by the responses I've had lately it seems that Australia takes the title of “A nation of Plumbers” ! Thanks to all the useful suggestions of how to solve my washing up dilemma – next time the opportunity arises to do the…

Yes, I'm just that busy (n.b. this may make no sense to non-Australian audiences… and in a rare first, probably not much to Australian audiences either, but anyway). I've been pretty flat out at work today and haven't had a chance to put up the wondrous stuff about my wacky trip to Frankfurt on the…

Well, that's another week nearly out of the way ! No great tales of high adventure still, although I am heading off to Germany (Frankfurt, to be specific) this weekend to catch up with Paul (a former colleague from Suspect) and his lovely girlfriend Sharon. I don't speak any useful German, so I guess I'll…

OK, here's my first public plea for help – we need a plug for our kitchen sink. At the moment we're doing the washing in a plastic basin-type-thing which sits in the sink, and it's REALLY GIVING ME THE SHITS ! Not that it's the only thing doing that at the moment, but that's a…

Here's one to appease those tired of reading long posts on my site. Didn't do much this weekend – went down to HomeBase (a “hardware store”) to get some picture rail hooks, but they didn't have any. Decided to conduct a photographic essay on the number of Chicken Shops on Willesden High Road, but then…