I have an update for you all on the landlord who is trying to keep our bond. For those who missed it, he’s refusing to give us (my boyfriend and myself) our money back because we made unauthorised renovations to his home. The way he puts it we sound like monsters, but I’ll tell you …
Okay so my grandma is not exactly winding down in her old age. If anything she’s gearing up. Her husband (and my grandfather) was always extremely stringent in the ways they spent their money, never doing anything much to excess and always saving as much as they could. When he died a few years ago, …
I’m not really one for comic book movies, as a general rule. I know for a fact that all efforts to bring Japanese animation into live-action have ended in abject failure, with the sole exception of Beth Boat. And to be fair, that was still a failure. It was just so bafflingly bad and tone-deaf …
While it’s certainly true that being too hot is an unpleasant feeling, it’s not something we tend to think about. If we’re hot, the usual reaction is to throw on some shorts, or turn on the air conditioning. Canberra can get unpleasant in the middle of summer, especially if it’s been a particularly dry spring. This …
