I’ve always lived very modestly, as per the values my parents instilled into me when I was young. I haven’t deprived myself of any necessities, but I tend to avoid spending too much money on something that I probably don’t need. Where my friends like spending money on the latest clothes, gadgets and brunches (so …
My mum’s car is her prized possession. She’s been maintaining it since she was thirty, and now at sixty she has passed the baton to me to continue the tradition. Needless to say, I’m feeling the pressure. She loves this car just as much as she loves me, so if I did anything wrong, she …
I’ve been working in this factory for twenty years now. Where did all the time go? I feel like it was just last week that I was finishing high school, bright-eyed and hopeful for the future. I was going to be a movie star! I had a few auditions lined up, nailed my year twelve …
I love my puppy, but wow… she is infuriating! She’s only just begun teething and she has already managed to chew through a significant amount of our timber furniture. I’ve tried training her out of it. I’ve given her chew toys, I’ve given her bones and I’ve put gross tasting spray on all the wood, …
I’m always reading about architecturally designed gardens that are supposedly ‘wild’ and ‘untamed’. Informal, maybe, but wild? Hardly. I mean, architecture and wilderness are fundamentally opposed concepts… aren’t they? I get that there’s an element of illusion involved; I just think it’s kind of misleading, and you can totally tell that’s all carefully engineered if …
I just got the greatest email of my life. A literary agent is interested in the Giggle Wiggle Chronicles. Janet McCallom sent me a request for the full manuscript of book one: Giggle Wiggle and the Shrine of Destiny. Within a minute of receiving the email, I had the book ready to send back to her. …
No one will ever understand frustration the way I do until they are unable to fall asleep, or finally drifting off to sleep only to be painstakingly awoken by the familiar ‘drip, drip, drip’ that has kept them up every night for the past three months. Even talking about it right now I feel my …
Sometimes I wonder how I passed my driving test. I barely know any of the road rules (despite my best efforts to learn them and get used to abiding by them) and I barely know how to work my car. I try to avoid driving as much as possible because of this, because honestly, I’m …
I’m not going to lie, the kids are beginning to get on my nerves. I love the little rascals endlessly, but wow do they know how to press my buttons. I’m a single father of two and it’s hard to work from home and look after my children at the same time. They’re both under …
I wonder what the road networks of the future will be like. Will they be engineered to meet the specific needs of self-driving cars? Will they be constructed entirely of solar panels, which somehow power the cars driving on them? Will they use some as-yet unknown technology to teleport travel pods along at such small, …