Ten Albums – (#3)

Like many others, the early stages of Steph’s & my relationship had a soundtrack provided by John Mayer.

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Ten Albums – (#2)

After university, having expanded my musical tastes somewhat – I’ll probably go into that a bit more later – I stumbled across an album by a performer I’d mostly written off up until that point.

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Ten Albums (#1)

When I started out at university, having moved with my family from country Victoria, I knew very few people, and had very limited musical appreciation outside of classical music or mid-90s pop on the one radio station (3TR). I was encouraged to meet up with some “nice people” from the Christian Union there, and dutifully… Continue reading Ten Albums (#1)

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Ten Albums

Generally, I make a practice of ignoring Facebook challenges. I’m not entirely sure why – perhaps they remind me too much of the old-skool chain-emails doing the rounds in the late ’90s… “… FORWARD THIS TO 11 FRIENDS OR YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK AND NOBODY WILL BE ATTRACTED TO YOU FOR 11 YEARS!” But… Continue reading Ten Albums

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Fun Tax Issues

The scene: driving home from kinder as the radio passes the hour. Newscaster: “…overcoming the tax issues that had been…” Little miss four: “Ooh! Can I have a pair?” Me: “A pair of what?” LM4: “Tax issues! I could run around in them and people would call out and I could take them where they… Continue reading Fun Tax Issues

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Families

8yo: “Why are family tickets only for two adults and two children?” Mummy: “Because most families only have two adults and two children -” 4yo: “…and one dinosaur”

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Beautiful

The scene: hospital interior; our 7yo is out of surgery and recovering post-anaesthetic. Dad: (to 7yo:) Look, isn’t mummy beautiful? 7yo: Nope! Mummy lowers book. Looks up at 7yo. Dad: Uhh… err… D- 7yo: She’s wearing a Cats jumper. Dad: Oh.

Rerouted

At work, I was feeling more and more sick, so I’m heading home from work early to avoid contaminating the office. Train at Flinder’s St is spontaneously rerouted from a city loop to a Richmond direct express to Box Hill service so I jump on just before it leaves. Train takes off and a lady… Continue reading Rerouted

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