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Young Men are Confusing, and Miss Milk is a Faux Pas.
I'd been so excited about going to lunch with Ben. So excited. I was so sure that something would happen. I don't know, maybe dating hormone-ridden people like The Lad and The Boy, meeting people like The Face-Licker, and hearing about all my peers "...
Excuses, excuses.
"After your efforts of banning the internet from your life on week nights, you managed to post a blog on Tuesday (the night you're not meant to be allowed to do this sort of thing) and have not updated come Saturday night, (the second night in a row ...
Dark Revelations.
The power in my house went out this evening.There's nothing very unusual about that. It does happen every so often, maybe a couple of times a year - when there's a particularly destructive storm, or somebody drives into a power line pole, or a fuse j...
Lollies please.
I just got back from my "job interview" at the lolly shop.Bit of a misnomer, if you ask me. The girl interviewing me, the manager, only asked me one question ("So how long would you be looking to be working here?" or something to that effect), at the...
The Return of the Blonde Dog
Riley had a dog-friend over to play today. Peanut. Or Pinot as the women at the Ivanhoe dog park call her, as though she's a bottle of French wine. Riley was so happy and excited to play with her, of course... But as I was eating my breakfast I could...
Mr Keats, you silly fop!
"O there is nothing like fine weather, and health, and Books, and a fine country, and a contented Mind, and Diligent-habit of reading and thinking, and an amulet against the ennui... a rocky basin to bathe in, a strawberry bed to say your prayers to ...
Damsel in Distress
I have two news items today! Two! Fancy!First of all, I took Riley down to Fairfield Boathouse this morning for a bit of a run and a swim. He sniffed along the banks of the Yarra, happy as larry, till suddenly - yelp! He disappeared behind a grassy e...
My Dog Children
I thought I'd like to introduce you all to the main man in my life.This is my friend Riley, the nearly 10 month old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. He's become my train companion of late. Yesterday we went for a long ramble around Greensborough (that'...
