Life+Stuff: Needs
You need: 1. Air 2. Water 3. Shelter 4. Food 5. Sleep 6. Exercise But really, there’s more to it. You need clean air and water, nutritious food, safe shelter, enough sleep and exercise to stay strong. You possibly need money, literacy and numeracy skills and some form of medication to function effectively. I believe [...]
Life+Stuff: Love your life
It’s taken me a long time to figure out how to love my life. I’ve spent years feeling overwhelmed, anxious and exhausted. I’ve tried to conform, achieve and contort myself into standard issue roles. I’ve failed in varying degrees and I’m finally starting to feel OK. I have taken to sleeping in, eating whatever I [...]
Virgin Atlantic: Highest High Tea
Virgin Atlantic has a cracking tagline for it’s new High Tea; ‘The Highest High Tea’. Yes, folks. You can have high tea served to you in ‘Upper Class’ which is Virgin Atlantic’s version of Business Class. This adds a whole new layer of novelty to what is already enormously fun. Work trip? Yeah, whatever … try perk [...]
Life+Stuff: 3 keys
Do you want to know what the three most important things in life are? Food, sleep and exercise. If you don’t get that right, everything else falls apart. It’s so easy and so hard. It’s taken me 33 years to figure this out and I still have to remind myself every time I stay up [...]
Hobart Hit List
I had long imagined Hobart to be some wild outpost starring the cast of The Piano interspersed with gumboot-clad cheese makers, feral hippies and rosy-cheeked moonshiners. In my mind, everyone was always singing sea shanties, eating apples and having soulful conversations with their pet ducks. Turns out I was half right. They do eat a lot [...]
Top 10 Cheap Travel Tips
Someone rudely suggested that I should give up travelling simply because I am broke. What nonsense! I will NEVER give up travelling. I live and breath and crave travel. Travel can be expensive but it doesn’t have to be. Here are a few tips to keep costs down: List your home on Air Bnb while you [...]
Life + Stuff: Sucky
Things that currently suck: – My enormous tax bill; the result of a dodgy accountant who failed to lodge my 2009/2010 return. I have no spending money and I can’t afford frilly knickers, concert tickets or fancy chicken dinners. Hmph. – Clients that don’t pay their invoices on time. I am a contractor and therefore [...]
Travel Hot List for 2012
This is my *impossible to substantiate list of places you should go if you want to out-cool everyone, including that guy at the dinner party who says he is a foreign diplomat but who might be a spy: 1. Sri Lanka India without all the hassle. Less people equals more order. Transport runs to schedule, [...]
Camping at Mill Creek, NSW
Q: What do bogans and large Middle Eastern families have in common? A: They both hang out at Mill Creek Camping Ground on a Saturday night. When Natureboy and I decided (at the last minute) to go camping, we realised (too late) that a lot of the beachside campsites are booked out waaaaay in advance. [...]
Life + Stuff: Snappy
Lately I’ve noticed how intrusive photography can be. Whenever anything noteworthy happens, my first reaction is to grab my iPhone. On a recent group trip to India, twelve cameras would appear every time an elephant, palace or sari-clad villager came into frame. We all started seeing everything as photo opp, a process that interfered with [...]
