My networth this month continues to be all over the shop. Money is flowing out as the house renovations are finalising and a trip to Darwin NT. Equities are of course crashing on the back of COVID-19. I'll keep it short. Net Earnings $3073 (February) $30,469.84 YTD Superannuation $91,404 Cash in the bank $32,761...

Last year we booked tradies to begin the final stages of renovating our old wooden house. Nothing too major, a few repairs and a lick of paint. So, naïve... The scaffolders arrived on Monday as planned and wrapped our little house in iron bars. Our builders found major repairs in addition to our minor ones. Then the...

In my continuing effort to make moving to Broken Hill quantifiable here are some extremely rough travelling numbers. From To Plane Train Bus Car Bicycle Walk Broken Hill Adelaide (500km) $200 2hrs No train $20 7hrs 5hrs 1w 1m Broken Hill Coffs Harbour (1,400km) $500 7hrs $60 23hrs $120 21hrs 15hrs 3w 3m Broken Hill...

Socio-Economic Index Map of Broken Hill This is interesting . The SEIFA map shows Broken Hill as an island of Socio-economic advantage in an ocean of disadvantage. I prefer to think of the glass half full so I am ignoring the quote at the top of that post. When it comes down the quantifiable it seems Broken Hill and...

We have both secured jobs in Broken Hill and have made the decision to make the move. We are jumping in with both feet, albeit with a lifeline back here in Coffs. We are renting our house out and buying one in Broken Hill. I hope to keep our mortgage below $500k which we should be able to manage with the rental...

I just read a New York Times aricle about Leon Black and his company, Apollo . A nasty outfit by the sounds of it. The article states that some of Apollos best customers are pension funds. In 2016 Apollo used the pension funds to slash health and retirement benefits for the very same workers who had paid into the...

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Magnum PI can take the heat I wish I was on a beach in the Bahamas. There might be a cool breeze; it might not be quite so insanely hot and the cocktails, unike the one I just invented, would not be so disgusting. I stuck some coconut milk in a jar with sugar syrup, ice and rum. The coconut milk would have been...

After I learned to ride a bicycle my horizon expanded. I was soon pedalling all the way to the bus stop without stopping to touch the ground. Riding my bike was as close as I could get to flying. At school I had learned that the Mongolian horsemen lived in the saddle when they rode to war and would even pee whilst...

Uncle J wanted to visit the " Jewish Holocaust Museum ". He'd been banging on about it for a while so we decided to take him on a flying trip to visit. The 1 hour flight was cancelled so we drove for 6 hours instead. Sydney was pushy; dirty; noisy and full of impatient crowds, shopping. A shit of a journey but a...

I should not read the news. We will probably never count the hundreds of millions of wild creatures who have been burnt or choked in the bushfires this summer. The survivors are now parched and starving amongst the ashes and the fires are still raging. Is the fate of the koalas a precursor of our own fate or our...

Like everything, the view out of our window is clogged with smoke Just when we think the bushfires must have burnt themselves out they just keep on going. Every morning we are waking up to thick smoke. This was the view out our window yesterday morning and it is the same today. Not a cloud in sight, just thick dirty...