Ducks' bums II
Ducks'—and I cannot stress this enough—bums.
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MIFFing, with reservations
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), 7-24 August 2025. I kind of hate MIFF. It can be a shitfight to get half-decent seats because it's very popular and a lot of presale tickets get snapped up by people with memberships. The memberships are too expensive to contemplate and the
Our wonky son
A few weeks ago we had to get a birthday present for a small human and the suggestion was to get a Labubu. Neither ourselves nor the suggester were aware that Labubus have become a worldwide, celebrity-driven collectible craze, so it wasn't easy to find one but an
Going electric - part one
The other week the kitchen powerpoint where we boil the kettle broke. The plastic cracked and the switch no longer switched. This left us with one working power outlet in the kitchen including the one the fridge is plugged into. A suboptimal situation. After frying two power boards trying to
The Birds 2: Melbourne Cricket Ground
About a month ago I watched Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds for the first time. Last weekend I saw Carlton beat Melbourne at the MCG. There are a lot of seagulls flying around the 'G. Beware ye who purchase chips especially. They really go for it and one