Last summer it was effectively only a fan for a couple of months until I finally got them to send a tech out and after spending a long time doing diagnostic stuff this was his big solution. So that's good right?

I just think it's great that I was 10 and thought Benji was cool and now I get to support a deeply cursed team in two different codes

Also I'd love a coffee and/or a wine when I'm over and I promise not to do tedious which big city is better discourse 😝

I think I found somewhere in Potts Point that's a bit better! I fully expect the area to be A Bit Much but it's just somewhere to sleep where I don't have to go far

Is staying in Haberfield gonna piss me off

Thank you for the cover exception, work radio switched to Christmas music the second it hit November but they're at least too cheap for originals so I get the joy of a really dreary acoustic version instead

Did not realise the room this is in was named after the judge who sentenced him to death. Wonder how he'd feel about that

And when I told people I was doing this I got a lot of "why do you want to go to Mildura?" and this is why, the sheer expanse of it. And (not pictured) the slightly uncanny quality of this area that should by rights be a desert but has a major river and so is full of citrus plantations

I really adore it. Last year I drove home for Christmas and took two days each way to do a scenic route - I went along the coast one way which is a road that very deservedly gets heavily marketed to tourists and is just stunning. The other way I went way inland where it starts getting very arid

I love a good landscape too but I feel like my output for 2025 leans very strongly towards the slightly silly ones

Huh I'd been labouring under the assumption that it was a Sydney thing, admittedly I don't read it particularly often! But yeah I've noticed it here too from people who should know better, in this case I kinda read it as inner city snobbery? This is what it's like north of Bell Street kinda thing

Not to mention that when they tried this in 2018 it backfired precisely because no one went along with it?