Because if your heart isn’t stirred by the sight of thousands of Norwegian fans doing their Viking row accompanied by a guy banging on a drum and thousands of voices rhythmically grunting, then you need CPR.
Nat Locke
When I was a kid, I had hobbies galore. Now, I’m wondering if tweezing the same three hairs from my chin with an alarming regularity or writing lists of the things that I’m aiming to do on the weekend count.
The caption read “Facebook albums were crazy because wdym you’d go to a house party then upload a picture like this THEN TAG EVERYONE?” Umm, yes we did.
Finally, after decades of waiting, quicksand finally made an appearance in the news. You could almost hear my entire generation thinking: ‘At last. The training is relevant.’
Hosting the annual Cat Haven Quiz Night I get the inevitable question: “I thought you were a dog person!” I’m here to officially tell you that I swing both ways. I’m an anomaly.
A TikTok video demonstrating an act of neighbourly pettiness got my office thinking this week about one of the great suburban debates — should you mow your neighbour’s lawn?
A document of great importance was released this week. No, not the federal budget, Australian Traveller’s Australia’s 100 Best Towns to Visit in 2026. And Esperance has deservedly made the cut.
Guys, draw closer. I need to tell you something. It’s one day a year. All you have to do is make a bit of a fuss of the woman who carried your children, and who bears the mental load of raising them.
She’s an Oscar winner and national treasure but, in my humble opinion, this two-minute act she insists on is one step too far.
As I emerge from my jetlag fog my algorithm is nagging me to declutter my house, but I’ve hit the obstacle of not knowing how to dispose of the things that are taking up room in my house, and my heart.
I’m still liable to fall over at any moment; who decided to cover the steep streets of Portuguese cities with slippery cobblestones? But I’ve realised I do things when travelling that I never do at home.
I’m writing this from the delightful town of Coimbra in Portugal, which is famed for having one of the oldest universities in the world. The uniform is a doozy, it’s basically the inspiration for Hogwarts.
With the Easter long weekend well and truly upon us, I have been reminiscing about Easters past, and the trip that stands out to me is the one that put me off camping forever.
It’s my birthday this week and while I have never been one of those “It’s my birthday festival!” kind of people, I do have some ideas for the perfect celebration. This is what my dream birthday would look like.
There was the one who carried a tiny wheelie bin around like it was a teddy bear, and who am I to question his need for an emotional support Itty Bitty Bin? Or a little one absolutely taken with the Titanic.
It was a simple instruction from a mum to a daughter, but it sent me spiralling back to a time of long road trips, awkward bush squats all while hoping a dugite didn’t suddenly appear.
From Punch the monkey to AI developments to detect women with a high risk of breast cancer, here are a few things to bring some positivity to a grim news week.
The term “weaponised incompetence” means deliberately being bad at something so you don’t get asked to do it again. So I’m here with some tips to ensure your shopping venture is a success.
Well, having shared a sauna with them, I can confidently say that they are incredibly athletic specimens. Everyone is tall and robust and inexplicably outdoorsy.
Mona Wiggins is 105, has better knee mobility than me and on top of twice weekly bowls, she also plays darts, hits the putting green and does her own shopping. Can we all agree that Mona is life goals?
There is something truly soothing about looking at all that snow and watching the athletes’ breath turning into condensation in the cold — that’s even better than air-con, if you ask me.
The new pencil case with the slots, the books to be covered in contact. Yes, I was a massive nerd, but also, I was stuck on a farm with two older brothers.
Here are some of things I’ve really taken the time to savour, because they have brought me joy or shown me a little glimpse of beauty, because that’s where the humanity lies.
I’m going to rank the top 10 Christmas desserts. No correspondence will be entered into. And because I love drama, I’m counting down from worst to best. This has more tension than the Hottest 100. Let’s begin.
