Back in 1994 I borrowed out a book from the Indooroopilly Public Library up in Brisbane, which I read and returned a couple of weeks later. End of story. Or so it seemed… Something happened at their end, and the book was pronounced “Unreturned”, and despite my pleas of innocence, the overdue fines... 

We’re moving house soon, and as people always do when that horrible time comes around in all our lives, there’s an element of “Spring Cleaning” which simply can’t be avoided. Of course, removing clutter from your life – the great possession purge – is never a bad thing, just... 

A lot of self-proclaimed food-snobs will profess near godly levels of knowledge concerning certain, well-worn categories. Without fail, many a dinner guest is regularly impressed/bored with anothers casual-yet-apparently-informed knowledge of cheeses, wines, olive oils, and I suppose even coffee (though let’s... 

You’d think with the Sydney Festival on right now that a lot of other activities would pack it in or at least expect record-low numbers. Quite the contrary. Looking at this weekend, it would seem that the festival’s presence has spurned on a lot of others to grab hold of the many folks still floating around... 

I always wanted my own quad bike when I was a little kid. There was something about them that made them so much cooler than a regular motorbike, and despite my parents protests, I couldn’t imagine a better addition to our acre of suburban bush backyard. Suffice to say, it never happened for me then, but recently,... 

It’s all about long, hard walks at our place at the moment. After a trip to Queenstown over the holiday break, we realised that if you’re prepared to take recreational walking to the next level (i.e. above “walking home from the train station” or “walking the dog”) then things can...