I am so bored talking about the council, potholes and how cold it is. Yes, it’s bloody cold, we have just had a huge bunch of ratepayers’ money that we can ill afford swallowed up in litigation (what was all that about, FFS?). So I thought I’d talk about a dark theory I spotted on […]

There are people who can fall down a shithole and come up with a gold brick, folks who can never get out of the shit and some of the community who simply drift along through life not giving a shit. Things seem to happen to certain people, whether it is good luck or bad luck […]

Craters of the Goldfields is my latest tourism idea. Every year my car goes in for a roadworthy. This is a self-induced chore so as I know the state of my tyres, brakes, lights, you know, the works. Some bloke in overalls gets down on his back with a torch and decides whether my vehicle […]

Wow, the world has gone and got itself into a tangle again, things seemed to swing so far to the left just a couple of years ago and now they are pulling to the extreme right. With racism comes sexism and all the other “isms” follow. Once you divide a community on the matter of […]

Wow, the world has gone and got itself into a tangle again, things seemed to swing so far to the left just a couple of years ago and now they are pulling to the extreme right. With racism comes sexism and all the other “isms” follow. Once you divide a community on the matter of […]

When Melbourne sneezes, the regions get a cold, although the opposite could be said during the pandemic, as Melbourne sneezed and folks decided to flock to the country. Humans are like lemmings when it comes to trends. I remember the program Sea Change, which pretty much invented the “seachange” movement, that whole idea of ditching […]

The latest firebombings in Melbourne are a scary and real thing and threaten once again to push residents out of the CBD. A quick look back at history in America reveals the same tactics – firebombings to businesses with a balance in damage so they can still trade but know they are being threatened. And […]

In life there are a couple of things that give me the shits and this is just the place to air them out and create conversations around nitwits and head- scratching situations. But lately there are a couple of things that have boiled to the surface of my universe that have given me a rash-style […]