What’s the point of a picnic in a winery without the picnic?
I’m going to a Rod Stewart concert in a Hunter Valley winery tomorrow night. At least I hope I am, the weather is not looking good with severe weather warnings for the area. This is …
I’m not going to clean my children’s house!
I’m on my weekly trip to the city for work, and staying at my kids’ place again. It always brings up mixed feelings when I’m here. I miss my kids now that I’ve moved out …
Somebody please give my son a job
Number 3 child is having another career change. This is the child who was often bored at school because he found things too easy. I’d ask his teachers to give him more difficult work to …
If you don’t like camping, you’re not doing it right
Poor Tanveer Ahmed. Fancy having to listen to the sounds of rain on the roof while you’re wrapped up snug in your sleeping bag, or hear the kookaburras laughingly greet the day uninterrupted by the …
Which beach is Australia’s best kept secret?
There’s another late entry in the biggest whinger of 2011 competition. That is everybody who’s joined in the annual whinge about the difficulties of holidaying in Australia. It seems like every time I pick up …
Christmas shopping horror stories
Christmas is over, turkey is cooked and eaten, families are visited and – importantly – presents have been given out and opened, for better or worse. And Doc came through with flying colours, as I …