Ever since I came to the big city, I was getting increasingly frustrated at how people deal with metal these days. It used to be an art, the way blacksmiths would work with steel. They’d spend hours on a single sword, regardless of who they were making it for. It was delicate and precise, and …
Ha! Mum’s left her leftover food out on the bench again! This is my chance! I’m going to snatch it up before she comes back from wherever she has gotten off to. She didn’t pick up her keys so she hasn’t gone far. I’ve got to act fast, going to have to be crafty about …
Finally, I’ve started an emigration fund. For the longest time, I’ve wanted to move my whole life to Japan, mostly because I feel like it’s where I belong, but also because that’s where the cartoon industry began. I want a job in animation…preferably as a voice actor. Sure, Dinki-Dai in Melbourne is a pretty good …
The Keymore Mansion restoration has been…interesting. I was there for the first few days fixing the decking, then I had to go back to work. Mostly I’ve been watching online, keeping up to date with the newsletters and reading the blog. And yep, it’s more or less what I expected would happen. The decking was …
Francis is still stuck on this notion of making the apartment look like a high-end London cocktail bar. Me? I still don’t get it. I mean, sure, the view is kind of reminiscent of that vibe (oddly enough, given that we’re in Carlton), but I’m not convinced that that’s reasonable grounds for said decor scheme. …
I’m calling it: good lighting is an underrated design feature. I’m sure there are plenty of people with me on this, yet it so often seems to take second fiddle to technology and furniture. In fact, lighting is the meeting point between those two elements, and deserving of just as much attention and prestige as …
Tony has been spending more and more time in the shed. What, pray tell, is he doing in there? I know he’s a tinkerer, but this is getting ridiculous. No gizmo requires that much tinkering. It makes me wonder if he’s doing some actual building. To the best of my knowledge, though, Tony has never …
They say a policeman’s job (or a policewoman’s job) is never done. They’re always ‘on-duty’ since they have knowledge of the law and training to enforce it. And I guess I’m exactly the same, because I own my own handyman business, I can do more or less anything around the house that doesn’t need heavy …
You might think there’s no such thing as haunted houses. You might say I’m getting carried away by juvenile seasonal traditions that simply don’t apply in this part of the world, that I’m buying into the occult-lite trend that’s sweeping the indie publishing industry, or any number of other excuses to fob me off. But …
My dad’s an elevator mechanic, and my mum’s an acupuncturist. Now that’s out of the way, and we can get on with the conversation. Can we, though? I’ve gone through life with a disproportionate sense of dread around people asking me what my parents do. It’s a question that tends to be asked less and …