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We’ve lived here about 7 years now. In that time we’ve pretty well totally redecorated (and in some cases remodelled) the house. The only reminders of the previous occupants are a couple of trees in the garden, the paint job inside the garage, and the Christmas card that now appears every year, addressed to them….
I mean, this is the kind of moment that calls for a stop & reminisce, right? 20 years ago today – May 2nd, 2004 – I stepped off a British Airways flight from Adelaide via Singapore which had freshly landed at Heathrow Airport. The Jason that had just left Australia was 28 years old, spent…
So, a few years back we bought a Ring video doorbell – and despite the early promise of Great Things the reality has been that the whole thing’s a bit pants. Ever the masochist, I decided to figure out what the problem was and then come up with a gameplan to make it better. From…
Resources are scarce – we know this much. So what can be interesting is seeing how people deal with that. We’re lucky enough to be on holiday in South Africa for the 2nd time in 12 months, and there’s a thing going on here which, frankly, I don’t know how Australia or the UK would…
One would think that in Britain at the height of an energy price crisis that switching to a pure electric vehicle might be a silly move. But you’d be missing the fact that lead times on ordering new electric vehicles have been up around the 18-month mark, meaning that when we ordered it we weren’t…
Some time ago we bought LarryBStanding a toy – it was on offer for about a tenner at a pet store that’s no longer there, and it was a kind of football-thing with rope tassles attached to both sides through some fabric loops. We figured he’d like it given his predilection for swinging any kind…
The other night whilst washing baby bottles (because this is what I do now) a phrase popped into my head that I don’t think’s ever been in there before at my behest: “chief cook & bottle washer”. Hardly a proposition from Wittgenstein, I realise – I was LITERALLY washing bottles as it came in there….
I keep forgetting to write about this, but I think you’ll agree – it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with any of the other quality content herein. During my 10-or-so years’ living in London one of the many & varied places I called “home” was a ludicrously expensive flat in the Russell Square area, above a reasonably nice…
I’ve always enjoyed cooking – it’s how I was able to negotiate my first tentative movement out of Mum & Dad’s house, through lodging at my cousin’s place in her spare room in exchange for being her live-in chef (primarily on the strength of the mashed potatoes I made during the “interview”). Exotic stirfries on…
In 2009 I thought it would be gripping and insightful to write about all the mobile phones I’d ever owned. And then in 2014 it seemed appropriate to update the list with what had come next. So, another 5 years on in 2020 it seemed only fair to thrill and regale you further with stories…