The youngest member of the team, Hollywood Todd, is pictured here with his favourite hat and the fishing rod from the worst present ever. Thanks Mr Housewife your contribution has been noted. The boy himself is nearly walking. This is one of the few photos I managed to shoot when he was not either crawling …
Author Archives: Andrew Todd
Responsible Parenting
Mark and I decided to go to the Tyrrells wine tasting at the SCG the other week. Sadly it was on a Saturday morning and SWMBO and JFGP had to go to his swimming lesson. So my cunning solution was to take Hollywood with me to charm all comers whilst Mark and I dabbled with …
Childhood Dreams
When we are young we all have dreams and hopes for what we’re going to be when we grow up. I wanted to be a policeman, the captain of one of Her Majesty’s ships or a formula 1 driver. I sometimes think that growing old is simply the narrowing of the opportunities available to us. …
Wikipedia
Oh look, I’ve got my own wikipedia page. Hmmm, I sniff an interloper trying to challenge my position as top Andy Todd on the web. Who is on your wikipedia page?
You’re A Kumquat
People, I am excited. In about an hour and a half I’m going to be sitting down in Sydney’s Opera House listening to Ben Folds and the Sydney Symphony work through a sizeable portion of his back catalogue. This will both rock and roll. More later, hopefully. Update: It was fantastic. As close as I …
We’re All Going On A
… spring holiday. After the excitement of last week I took a break from my hectic work schedule and booked a little family getaway for next month. We’re off for a three day weekend in Port Stephens. Being a classy family we are going to stay at a caravan park. SWMBO is hoping that it …
Coming To A Screeching Halt
And in the period of about three hours my beloved’s return to work came to an abrupt end. Even before it had started. I don’t want to go into details here because it isn’t the right place and because I’m still quite angry. But suffice it to say that turning around at the eleventh hour …
Things you can’t buy
Apart from the obvious things (Marmite, Marks and Spencer undies) there are some things that I just can’t find for sale in Australia. Starting today I’m going to document them here. This will be a very occasional series but let me start with this inaugural list of things you can’t buy in Australia; Streaky bacon. …
Fast Mover
SWMBO is returning to work. From conception to execution has taken no longer than three weeks. When she makes her mind up she doesn’t hang around. It all started innocently enough, one day at work middle-management-Mikey casually (and I thought half jokingly) inquired if Mrs Todd was looking for a job. I replied that she …
Speaking of Popular Culture
I’m not saying that we have bad music in our car (courtesy of Mr Housewife (KRed Parent)) but it is looking increasingly like Olly’s first proper word will be Agadoo. Oh dear. I shall be burning the CD as soon as I can get it out of the car. Its the only possible thing to …