I took today off after waking up feeling rubbish. Thank you to everyone who messaged, mind you! Spending a day recovering isn’t going to be on the highlights reel, but one thing that I wanted to point out was how easy it was to organise with work. I sent three messages, one to my boss,…

I’ve contracted an illness, and it hasn’t been nice. Sore throat, swollen glands, fatigue. It’s a drag. I don’t have a strategy to fix it bar going to the chemist, picking up a bunch of stuff, and trying it all at once. Vitamin C, multivitamins, cold and flu tablets. Fingers crossed I’ll feel better in…

I am heading back to Aus for a week in August, for reasons I’ll share in a later post. Most of it will be in Sydney, but I’ll spend two nights in Melbourne to spend some time with my sisters. On Friday night, we were hoping to go to the MCG to watch the football;…

Newcastle United, the stress and misery-inducing Premier League football club, has decided they want to change their logo. There are many divisive things in football, that’s why people like it, but this has unified the fan base around one decision: don’t. The club only started wearing a crest in 1969, and have kept the current…

Have you ever wondered how common your name is? Well, you needn’t wonder any longer, especially if you live in the US. This website HERE tracks name popularity, up to the year 2021. In that year, the odds of a child being called Oliva OR Liam, the most popular name for girls and boys, was…

There has been a stray cat that has been frequenting our backyard recently. Ky and I call him (?) Un Gatto, Spanish for “A Cat”. I don’t mind him, and have been giving him some milk. He loves it! I would too if I lived rough like him. Un Gatto comes more and more frequently,…