So you’re off to the races and your outfit is to die for? There’s just one thing left to do to ensure you’re the beau/belle of the ball: it’s time to brush up on your speaking points because you don’t just want your fascinator to be fascinating. Ascot Conversation Dos and Don’ts DON’T get too [...]

On the eve of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival/carnage I was hoping to write a longer feature on the Dos and Don’ts of the horse racing season. However, my brief sojourn in hospital and severed right arm have precluded from me from doing so. Instead, I present Tramp Bingo: a game you can play with [...]

One of my roommates (a leisurely male of twenty-five who spends his days plaiting his beard) and his silent-but-cute squeeze (a schoolgirl of seventeen) share a very lustful and passionate sex life. I have awoken to my chandelier swing dancing about my room (their bed takes residence above my head), causing turbulent slumbers of a [...]

I live in a share house with a girl whose long hair is  forever stuck in the drain of the shower. I’m sick of the shower flooding; and when I try to tell her about it, she always avoids the conversation. How should I encourage her to clean up her mess? Follicularly Challenged, Darlinghurst, NSW Dear Follicularly [...]