From a series written for ABC Radio National’s Blueprint for Living. First aired on 4th November 2023 (you can listen […]
Archive for ‘Australia’
Notes from a renovation
For months my head has been so full of this house that sometimes it’s been difficult to think about anything […]
Service with a smile
One of the things that struck me when I first moved to Australia over twenty years ago was customer service. […]
Slowly does it
It’s true: sometimes I can be such a slow learner. You’d have thought we’d have our renovation planned to perfection, […]
Design icons: the public toilet
From my regular series of Design Icons written for ABC RN Blueprint. You can find others on my main page […]
Design icons: the voting booth
From my regular series of Design Icons written for ABC RN Blueprint. You can find others on my main page […]
This other Eden
Everyone knows Australia is teeming with beasties. And even if I hadn’t been aware of it, someone very helpfully gave […]
Design icons: the white picket fence
From my regular series of Design Icons written for ABC RN Blueprint. You can find others on my main page […]
Cooped up and freaked out
I can’t quite believe that we’ve been living here for a full year. I had imagined we might even have […]
Happy days
Thinking back over this past year, it sort of feels like an awfully long week. It lacked the grand sweep […]
Colin Bisset 