My mum recently gave my sister and me each a big envelope full of our old school photos and school reports. It's funny looking at photos...

Big companies have responsibilities to their communities, especially when they have provided jobs for thousands and custom for other busines...

My dad just moved house and cleared out his stuff, and I was very happy to be given this relic from my childhood, now yellowed and cracked l...

Two things caught my eye in blog posts this week: This post on Freakonomics about a study on the effects on a marriage and a woman's ...

So, spam comments on blogs have changed over the past couple of years. At first they were purely complimentary, like this: Hey, great b...

Children love the most unexpected things. One day on a whim I popped into a haberdashery store and bought two metre lengths of wide ribbon, ...

Our cat Tia spends a lot of her time lately wandering the house looking for a place to lie down away from the dog. She walks around and hiss...

On the weekend before last there was a magnificent sunset over Melbourne. We were at Rowville, which is a much maligned big new suburb out...

So I took a tumble stepping off a simple curb yesterday, sprained my ankle and am on crutches. Yes. Less than a year after breaking my arm...

Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL mild autumn day in Melbourne today.  It was my favourite kind of weather: sunny but cool and breezy and crispy clear. ...