Author: Mike
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41 days
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41 days until the often grey, always special town of Berlin becomes my home for the foreseeable. The house is sold, the flights are booked, the kids are enrolled in school… I’m not sure which of those events was the bigger “this is really happening” moment, and frankly there’s still a lot to be done, but… this…
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Having kids is…
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remembering at 6pm on Monday that you didn’t do any batch cooking on the weekend and so you think oh well I’ll just whip up a quick cottage pie and then hey presto it’s dinner at 8:30 lolol
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“I’m a young photographer, how much should I charge?”
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How much should you charge for photography? It depends! Let’s look at it here.
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ThreadHeads: The coolest tees I’ve found today
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Today I went browsing my current favourite site for fun tees, Aussie website ThreadHeads – and I’ve got a discount code for you and me!
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Man it’s like kids don’t know they’ll still live if they stop talking
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🍿 Now Screening…
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Flashback to the early 2010s when I occasionally hosted retro movie nights for friends – ‘now showing’ poster included. 😁 This reminds me, of course, that Netflix hadn’t yet launched in Australia to kick off the streaming era. It first arrived in 2015, and up to then, the only choice was linear TV or ‘cable’.…
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The dogs can’t come, but we’re still going. I’ve copped some, err, heat for that.
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Well, our mission to Germany continues apace. We’ve spent a lot of borrowed money on getting our fixer-upper house ready for sale, and it’ll go to auction in late March. As always, I’m very aware of our privilege in being able to access finance for this, and that we have a mortgage at all. We’ve…
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Kids. 😂
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Miss 5 turns around from the dinner table as I’m washing the dishes and asks, “is it dessert night?” She’s literally just finished a big bowl of yoghurt. “What? You just had a big bowl of yoghurt. It’s right in front of you!” 🧐 In all seriousness, she responds, “But that’s empty!” 😂 This flippin’…
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Compelling, exciting, horrifying
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So, meine Liebe, after watching Eurovision this past weekend (long-time fan of course, like most Aussies), is back on her “should we move to Germany?” dreaming.