27 Years Of Paint Part One.

Last month (July) marked 27 years since I was given my first full-time job after leaving school. Yep, on 30th July, 1990, I started working for Haymes Paint in Ballarat, Victoria. Since then I have seen many changes in the household paint industry and some things that still haven’t changed. Some brands leading the way […]

The Next Chapter.

What did you do this week? Guess what I did. Photo screen capture from Hercules Returns starring David Argue as Brad McBain. My favourite film of all time. That’s right! I gave notice at my day job after five and a half years there and 25 out of the last 27 years in that industry. […]

Everyone I Have Ever Met Is Amazing. My Howard Fine Masterclass Experience.

Some of them are amazingly stupid or amazingly brainless or even more annoyingly, amazingly ignorant. But I am wanting to keep this a bit more positive, so I won’t talk about the ignorant morons who think that the days I am not at the day job, I just sit around doing nothing. No, not going […]

The Results Are In

This will probably be the the shortest blog I have ever or will ever write. Not even the back story waffle on bit. Got the results today from Hayley’s CT Scan and MRI. The CT scan showed nothing and the MRI shows everything to be stable. In other words, nothing has changed since our last […]

My 2016 Journey Part Three (includes some 2017)

Well we hit another milestone on Saturday night. Here’s what I posted on Facebook:- Now for some backstory on that feed tube. But an upfront warning, some of this will be a little detailed, I will try not to go into too much but if you are incredibly squeamish then you have been warned. I […]

The Bite Of The Big Black Dog

This is a long time between blogs. When you aim to do one weekly or sometimes, maybe, a fortnight later and then, suddenly, six weeks goes past. A big part of that is I wanted the next one to be a lot cheerier than the last. Let’s be honest, if they were all like that […]

The Dad Of The Girl With One Eyelash.

Stay strong! Stay Strong! STAY STRONG!!! Well sorry to all those who think this is what I HAVE to do. Right now I can not Stay Strong! Nor can I be strong. If you think I should then you best stop reading now to avoid disappointment. Some say we need to share our feelings and […]

They’re Back! THE LASHES ARE %@*&ING BACK!!

That’s right, Those Famous Eyelashes Are Back!!!…. 23rd June 2016. Leia and I were called into a small room at The Royal Children’s Hospital and given the devastating news that our 6 year old Hayley has a cancerous tumour called a Rhabdomyosarcoma which is 5cm long and 2.5cm wide with branches coming off in different […]

Reflecting on my 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival experience.

Thought I’d change the subject this week to mix it up a bit. I found this blog I wrote in 2013 but for some reason never published. The venue sadly doesn’t exist anymore and the show was a lot of fun and a big success. Anyway here it is:- No worries, there’s no urgency on that, I’ll do […]

My 2016 Journey Part Two

Yep, Part 2. Now these blogs are not running in chronological or any other type of order. If you are trying to fit these into a timeline, I might inadvertently piss you off a little bit. Part 1 was more of a summary, Part 2 will put details into some of those bits. I think […]