About a month ago Property at work changed the swipe point to gain access to the building. It used to be right next to the door, now you have to stop about 3 metres before the door and swipe your ID card. But old habits are hard to break. Every day this week I have [...]
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I first saw this sign at North Cottesloe. I thought then it was a stupid sign. What are they trying to warn against? Diving? Shallow water? Why not just say that?? To just say “water” seems a bit obvious. Hello… it is the Indian Ocean… Having two stupid signs… does that make the Town of [...]
I sat opposite this lavender the other day, eating my Vietnamese spring rolls. I was sharing the park bench with another woman who told me her life story. She came from Sydney, about a year ago. Her husband, a landscape gardener, had got a job and, as their kids had finished high school, they thought [...]
I went out to lunch today with a couple I don’t know that well but am getting to know better. He is a great networker! Anyway on the way back to work I spied this bird who has made a nest in the middle of the artificial lake on top of a sculpture. You can’t [...]
Remember this scene from The Matrix? Take the blue pill and you stay asleep… take the red and wake up to reality? Why did they choose those colours? Why blue and red? It might be based in science. I was listening to some back-episodes of my new favourite podcast – RadioLab – and one of [...]
I am over Michael Jackson. No, I am. I can’t tell you how many emails I get advising me of this special or that special, how many times I’ve turned on the telly to be bombarded with yet another memorial concert. Is it just me? Or are you over him too? One person who really [...]
I learned something this weekend. Mandarins – those lovely packets of orangy goodness… … make me fart. Sad but true.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring! No, not that kind of wake up call but while we’re on the subject – how do you wake up each day? On my old phone – a Nokia n80 – there was a ring tone called “Amaze” and it was several people saying “Ohhhhhh”, getting louder and louder each time. It kind of [...]
