Like this is terrible and we shouldn’t be funding private schools BUT am I the only one thinking that $270 a day doesn’t seem that much more expensive than daycare…

This is heartbreaking for the local beer and wine producers. In particular we have visited Love Shack and Shed Shaker and drink their beers regularly - will miss buying them as easily in Melbourne whilst they recover. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Is anyone in the Aussie craft beer scene having issues with Facebook not promoting their pages due to their “breaking rules”? Seems to be an issue for UK chums and just realised I’ve not had anything in my feed for a few days... @craftypint.com?

The preschoolers I’ve encountered today have all been a bit feral due to the heatwave. Including my own son currently having a howler of a meltdown over the colour of the nightlight in his room.

Ooops. This pub is in the bushfire zone. Probably won’t burn but feel bad for slagging off their food now. I hope it is feeding lots of hungry emergency workers.

At a country pub where the food is terrible and at least one beer tasted off. We were not helped by son shouting “we need to go somewhere else to get a better beer.” Mate, we were trying to be discrete.

Dammit. Will need to stop comparing Southern Cross station to St Pancras every time I pass through it!

My son has learned how to talk to Siri and ask for what he wants. The peace and quiet was nice while it lasted.

Just sometimes I get confused by people on social media getting angry about PDF files in powerful positions. I am so slow.

Yay! Finally the ultimate weapon to use against others who recommend his books to my son. (I was dreading it as they are rubbish anyway, regardless of the author.)

Having ADHD and needing to have a system for not losing stuff is made so much more *fun* by having a three year old who loves to move your things about in the spirit of being helpful.

This news from Sydney is just so horrible. I am desperately sad that innocent people have been murdered, and I hate how this is going to play out in the media and in politics over the next days, weeks and years.

Oh no, how sad.

An experienced organizer I really respect once reminded folks "you can't always win, but you can always, always inflict a cost. Those add up."

But at least the new Vic Liberal party leader supports the Treaty that’s just been signed? Oh, she doesn’t now she’s leader? Sigh.

Husband is teaching kiddo how to play Super Mario and the absolute delight of kiddo’s first successful manoeuvre is just 🥰 He’ll be on Roblox in no time (no he won’t.)

I had no idea that the use of lithium to treat bipolar was discovered by an Australian. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/n...

You will be pleased to know that Elliot, despite being years from (legal) drinking age, has been taught to take his empty glass of apple juice back to the bar.

From 2019 onwards, you say. How mysterious.

Heh, I didn’t know until about three minutes ago that Zohran Mamdani’s mum is Mira Nair… Been more focused on his politics!

At Carwyn Cellars where my son is dipping his chips into aioli and orange juice and loving it. But who am I to judge when I’ve probably had beers with weirder flavour profiles here.

Three year old goes to bed listening to the soundtrack from Skyrim which is a strong choice, firmly demanded by him.

Turned Roxy Music on and told the toddler to dance - he is a big Virginia Plain fan now seeing as he’s asked me to replay it three times in a row whilst declaring it to be “good music, Mummy!”

I never seem to get a chance to have a beer by myself anymore so the two Devilbend Farm Beer Co German-style beers brewed for Oktoberfest at Miss Moses in Brunswick were even MORE delicious.

“We have to keep the door closed or ghosts will get into our house.” I have news for you, kiddo…

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

A friend posted their list of fave albums from 2005 and I am working my way down the list. What a wild ride of emotions this is.

After decades in London and then Sydney I still get surprised when Melbourne buses generally don’t move until everyone is sitting down.

Google was trying to make me think I lived in South Carolina so my account should be assigned there and not Australis where I actually live. But I know better! (I suspect due to some muppet who doesn’t know their email subscribing to marketing from multiple companies based there?)

I absolutely adore this new album from Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective. Scratches all the itches in my brain! music.apple.com/au/album/har...

Oh boy, Chadstone is a 45 min drive and a whole economic zone up and away from Brunswick.

I am glad someone cleared this up for me before I tried to invite the local hooligan magpies over for a wine in an attempt to avoid swooping…

Love an Uber trip home from the airport with Joe Rogan soundtrack. 🫠

Trying to buy a home is like internet dating. You swipe right, find some great candidates that tick all the right boxes, but you still have to compete with other potential matches. Sigh. I hope today’s date, er, auction goes OK and we aren’t outbit by some smooth talking twat.

I wish I could find the post in my feed this morning, seemingly from some random health nut job. There was an xray that was meant to show someone’s guts and the impact of certain foods on health but it was clearly a dog’s xray.

Terence Stamp obit UK: “Star of Superman and the Limey.” Terence Stamp obit Australia in the same paper: “Star of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.”

If you even attempt to push a button in this home without our toddler being given the option to do so first you will lose a limb.

I hate not being able to listen to BBC 6 Music in the same way as I used to in Australia.

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

I did not expect to turn around this morning and see my toddler with a pair of googly eyes stuck immediately above his actual eyes and another set stuck immediately below them. It was like I was seeing my first biblically accurate angel, and I imagine just as terrifying.

Whoever made Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club is on the best kind of drugs.

Back in Brisbane in my old patch of the West End listening to the Go-Betweens and Robert Forster walks past and nods at me. It only needs Bluey to walk past and it would be BrisneyWorld.

NUTELLA, SOPHIA LOREN, SUPERMARIO, PARMA HAM, GINO DI CAMPO, SILVIO BERLUSCONI. YOUR GIRLS TOOK ONE HELL OFA BEATING

Getting some odd looks from my fellow passengers on my flight to Brisbane - I guess running around the plane with my t-shirt over my head and no real context does worry people somewhat. But we’re in the finals! Woooo! Go Lionesses!

Hoping my flight doesn’t leave the gate before this game ends… come on…

What I hate most about generative AI is that all the lovely PhotoShop request groups where I got to marvel at the skills some folk have are full of rubbish Chat GPT efforts now.

Seriously? My kid says “you’re not my best friend” if you tell him to do something he doesn’t want to do or even look at him funny. www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/i-...

What a lovely idea!

Twenty years, hey? Thinking of everyone who lost someone they loved that London summer morning, and those that survived.