Month: January 2021

  • The Snook Talks Coffee

    I’ve been promising for a while now to get the Snook to write a blog post about his new coffee machine, and I also recently realised that I left coffee out of my cost of living post. So rather than continue to nag him (he hates writing), I decided the easiest thing to do would…

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  • Uses This

    Three years ago, I got an invitation from Daniel Bogan inviting me to be interviewed for his site Uses This. This is a site where various nerdy people (lots of Aussies, but also international folks) answer some questions about the tools they use for their work and their hobbies. Unfortunately I got waylaid by life…

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  • Thinking.

    Spent ten minutes debating with the Snook today whether we should go back to low-carb eating… and then I read this Twitter thread, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. https://twitter.com/TheRotund/status/1346181272620716032

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  • I noticed the other day that a few of the craft technique videos I put on YouTube as a lark have started attracting lots of views, so there’s clearly an appetite for “how to” content. With that in mind, I’m going to try to make a few more this year. I recorded the first one…

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  • The Cost of Living

    Photo by Annette Fischer on Unsplash It’s the end of the year, which means the Snook and I have both been diving deep into our financial accounts for 2020. While we have combined finances, I tend to track the month-to-month micro expenses and budget while he looks after the long-term retirement planning and investments. (If…

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