My husband and I got given a massive leg up in the world thanks to his parents. They bought a property in a fantastic area of Melbourne before it was popular, and passed the property down to my husband when they unfortunately passed away. Whilst that was a tragedy, they truly set their son and …
I’m a really bad sleeper. I always have been, and I always will be. I haven’t been able to sleep properly in years and it has impacted my life in a very negative way. The only thing I have ever found that helps me sleep at night is to be directly under a window with …
I learnt a hard lesson last week. What was that lesson, you may ask? The lesson was to absolutely never attempt to fix your own plumbing. It ends in a disgusting mess. I can still smell the remnants of my family’s business, which is something that I desperately hope to forget sometime soon. For those …
I love fishing. That’s right, I love it so much. I know everything there is to know about fishing because it is a big hobby of mine. The biggest hobby, you might say. In fact, you could say that nobody is a bigger fishing hobbyist than I am. I am the biggest fishing hobbyist there …
It’s going to be nice to get out of Sweden, Victoria for an afternoon. Seeing as Space Wizard and I won the previous challenge, we get to go for a drive to pick up some hardware for the next task. All the other contestants have to use the basic building supplies given by the producers, …
Does anybody know what happens in a hyperbaric chamber? I’m sitting in the waiting room, my appointment just fifteen minutes away, and I’m feeling really stressed. I don’t know anything about these things. For all I know you step into the chamber and suddenly you are thrust into a dangerous gauntlet of flamethrowers. What if …
Multitasking: could it be a gift rather than a curse? Maybe this is old news to some, but I’m just starting to realise that being forced to do a million things at once gives rise to a set of skills that’s actually quite useful. Then again, it wouldn’t be that useful if you weren’t having …
What is carbon monoxide, anyway? Is it some sort of drink? I’m pretty sure there’s this awesome drink going around that the kids call dihydrogen monoxide, so it must be another form of that. Maybe it’s the adult version of it? I’ve heard that humans are carbon-based lifeforms, so I guess that would make sense. …
I never knew that office building involved so many different aspects. Last week we were making glass balustrades and tinting windows, whereas this week we’re creating kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms. There’s a lot to do and not much time before the premiere of Australia’s Next Top Office season two. This is a particularly tough …
I’ve got to admit, it’s a brilliant idea to have all the contestants of Australia’s Next Top Office have their own blogs and scatter them along the internet for people to find. It’s like the world’s greatest treasure hunt. I thought our profile pages would be the end of this little experiment but it turns …