As a tradie, making sure my van works is obviously pretty important. It can get hard to get to a job if my van doesn’t start, and I know that from personal experience. It actually sucked. Last year I got in heaps of trouble because I couldn’t get to a job and it made us …
When people look at me, they see a privileged upper middle class young woman who has had the world handed to her. Whilst they’re not wrong, what they don’t know is that I’ve worked for every single opportunity I’ve been given. I acknowledge that I was lucky to receive the opportunities in the first place, …
My kids and I are sweltering. It’s Western Australia in the middle of summer and it has gotten to the point where no one is comfortable. The streets are barren. It’s even too hot for any flies to come out and annoy people. That’s when you know that the heat is just too much. At …
I’m about to make the biggest move of my life, literally and metaphorically. As a girl from the Northern Territory, I am used to a life that is extremely different to the inner city one I am about to jump into. In two months I will be packing my entire life into my car and …
Like Sisyphus, I am bound to eternal torment. Actually, at least Sisyphus had fresh air and a solid end goal. I’m more like…Tantalus. I desperately desire something, in this case my freedom, but I cannot have it. Alright, there’s no such thing as the perfect analogy, but I do know that if I spend another …
Bah, vehicles! BAH, I say! Time was that you could get anywhere in the kingdom by simply leaping astride your gigantic swine, performing a simple weightless enchantment and soaring through the sky, conducting the winds like an orchestra to push you to your destination. I learned today that people of this realm have been driving …
I’m ready for the race of my life. It’ll be fast, but I’m faster. It’ll be tough, but I’m tougher. It’ll be insane, but I lost my mind several years ago. For two hours I’ll be driving from Brisbane to Brigalow, with a checkpoint in Toowoomba. Auto electrical shops will be happy, given how beat …
I have always admired the engineering and architecture of the city of Melbourne. Anyone who has been here, or who is lucky enough to live here knows just how stunning the city is. It doesn’t get as much credit for its aesthetics and design as Sydney does, but honestly, I think it’s better. The whole …
I have been driving for as long as I can remember. Now, you might take that to mean that I can’t remember a time in my life where I couldn’t drive, or you might think I’m being hyperbolic. You’d be wrong about that. Whether it’s been days, weeks, months or years, I’m not really sure …
Keymore is weird, I’ve decided. I came here once a few years ago, when the Lemur sanctuary was still here, and that was okay. We basically just drove into the sanctuary and drove out again at the end, although we did drive past the farmer’s market and we got some really weird looks. Like they …