We’ve all been partying too hard, too long. Universities have been partying harder than most. Is this the moment for revolution? https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-decline-of-universities-where-students-are-customers-and-academics-itinerant-workers-20200528-p54xbd.html
There was no dunny. The cabin had been erected early July but, come September, there was still no dunny. It had to be off-grid, of course, composting, nothing out the other end but inoffensive garden-friendly fertiliser. With a bit of research I’d found a system that seemed promising, from a mob in Queensland, and ordered […]
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Sydney is losing its spirit of creative, passionate dissent beneath a blanket of ear, conformity and narrow judgmentalism https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/let-s-revive-the-larrikin-spirit-of-mundey-and-leplastrier-to-secure-our-future-20200514-p54sw1.html
I wanted to build a shed. Not a house, a shed. The fact was clearer in my mind than the reasons. A shed, especially of the three-wall hayshed variety, sounds cold, gaunt, comfortless – so how to explain my chronic shed-o-philia? My love of what I consider the brown paper bag (or maybe manila envelope) […]
This morning brought the first frost of the season. I wanted it to be the first video, too. Admittedly, the vid was a bit scrappy (pyjamas, no makeup, handshake) but I got out of bed in like 2 degrees specially to make it for you, so was gonna post it. Only I must have talked […]
So just to keep y’all in the picture, and because there’s a bit of history here already (two years, to be precise) I’m thinking I’ll do one front-story, so to speak, then one back-story. Alternating. Take it in turns you guys. I know you want to be told, all you stories. But stand in line […]
Published: SMH May 2, 2020 Missy the black Burmese is an intrepid mouser. That’s her inner Artemis, the huntress. But she’s an equally determined sub-doona foot-snuggler. A lifetime house cat, she’s an early adopter of the COVID lifestyle, always eager to sneak out but still more delighted, after a few metres and fewer minutes, to […]
