Exertion will pay off - Stray
STRAY is about random adventure and escape. STRAY is about pretending that Melbourne is Ferris Bueller's Day Off and that fun and money aren't mutually exclusive. STRAY is cheap hijinx, cheap dates and the outings you could be planning while you're actually watching Video Hits on a weekend at 11am.
Home brewing
So ya wanna drink beer right, you also have no money, and you're reaaaaaally lazy. WHAT TO DO!? Well have I got a tip for YOU!
Get yourself a sciencey buff who is into researching and studying up on anything (ANYTHING) and team them up with a friend who is so pent up with mood swings that they are looking for something (ANYTHING) to do with their hands.
Middle Brighton Baths
The Middle Brighton Baths is one of the only remaining caged open water seabaths in Australia, harking back to the 19th century when swimming in open beaches was poo-pooed and 'bathing' was the acupuncture of the time. These days it's an untapped gem frequented only by old codgers called Gary who look as if they've been coming every morning since it opened in 1881, and have earned the right to their own personalised towel hook in the change room.
Adopting a dog
Ever since fleeing the family home all those years ago, I have felt something missing from my life. Spare cash? Certainly. Home cooked meals? That too. Aside from all that, a certain gentle presence has been lacking, in the shape of a Jack Russell Terrier. Those little bundles of unconditional love, who literally wet themselves when you open the door and to whom the prospect of going for a walk with you is brain-meltingly exciting.
How to give good Facebook
Let's face it, not many people give good Facebook. I certainly don't. The extent of my chat-mastery is a happy/sad/winking face. Not cool. To try and rectify this I called Facebook, and eventually they put me through to engineer Chris Putnam. Putnam, or ‘Stud' as his colleagues call him, broke it down for me:
"The first thing you've got to realise is that emoticons like smiley faces are commonplace.
The Royal Melbourne Show
Dagwood dogs dripping with dead 'orse, hot chips, fairy floss in buckets, ghost trains with that don't-talk-to-strangers kind of feeling, mullets, winny reds and skinny jeans, wood chopping and pig diving, whingeing scally wags, spending an entire year's worth of pocket money on showbags. Cooee it can only mean one thing, the Royal Melbourne Show has rolled into town for it's 154th year, giving us slickers a taste of the rool Australia.
DIY Kiting
Upon hearing about Clement Habicht's 100 Kites show at Lamington Drive, I got all excited about kites and decided to make one myself. I checked some DIY sites and there were some mighty nice kites flying around on them. Thing is, they were all amazingly pretty and looked like they took ages to make.
North Sentinel Island
Every so often I look up from what I'm doing, be it cleaning the toilet or writing more hate mail to Henry Kissinger, and I think, "I wonder what they're doing right now, at this very moment, on North Sentinel Island..."
North Sentinel Island is a small land mass (72 square kms) plopped right in the middle of the Bay of Bengal, and the folks that live there, the Sentinelese, are the last remaining untouched indigenous people on earth.
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