Looking for some inspiration for a potential upcoming bathroom renovation, we went out to Aurora - one of the new housing estates popping up on the fringe of Melbourne with display houses open for inspection.
The estate is plastered with signage all over the place promising a brighter future in a rural setting. None of the [...]
SPOTD award today goes to the Darebin council who sent us a letter to our home address about our new rental property.
Dear Sir/Madam,
<address of rental property>
We have recently been advised that you are the new Owner/s of the abovementioned property. All future correspondence relating to this property will be addressed, as per this letter. If [...]
Di and I went out for dinner last night and selected the Meadow Inn Hotel as the venue. We shall not dine there again.
We each ordered the chicken parmigiana with vegetables but were rather dismayed when they arrived. Vegetables, it seems, must have been in short supply.
My meal had two mini corn cobettes (~1cm wide), [...]
Di’s eagle eyes perusing the Bunnings catalogue today found an interestingly unhelpful weekend DIY workshop. Click the thumbnail to see what I’m referring to.
Er, no thanks. I don’t think I want one of those…
Di won tickets for a preview of “The Wolfman” this evening. This was, of course, quite exciting. Hurrah! Free movie tickets!
Having seen the movie, it’s still quite exciting. Hurrah! We did not have to pay to see that absolute stinker of a film!
Good grief! That was appallingly bad.
It’s a movie about a werewolf on the [...]
I always thought that “reduced” meant “not the same as it was”. At my local Woolworths, it means something else. When meat reaches a certain number of days before the expiry date, they discount the price by having an employee go along and perform calculations.
Check out the original price tag and the new “reduced” price [...]
Today’s SPOTD was an evening shopper at our local Woolworths supermarket.
An older male shopper about 70 years old was reading the label on a jar of lemon-flavoured spread for a while. As we stood near him looking at something else, he opened the jar with a loud POP, breaking the hermetic seal. He then looked [...]
When you’re a real estate agent endeavouring to become the property manager of a new investment property, here’s a little tip: Follow up.
After recently purchasing an investment property, a representative from Nelson Alexander Real Estate contacted me and asked if we could discuss them being the property manager. I entertained the notion until it became [...]
Ignorance is bliss and SPOTDs are generally ecstatic as a result.
At the zoo this afternoon with colleagues as an end-of-year planning activity, we were standing beside the enclosure containing a giraffe at an elevated feeding station and a dusky brown zebra at its feet. It was clear to us the zebra was a young animal [...]
After the recent purchase of an investment property, we are in the midst of vetting prospective property managers and finding whole new ways to be annoyed - and we’re just prospective clients at this point. A recent example is Barry Plant Real Estate who we contacted and asked for them to provide their costs as [...]
