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house hunted

I know a lot of people who have spent many long weeks house hunting. They pick the general area they want, consider things like nearby shops, a uni or schools, how close it is to the beach, whether it's a good investment. They ruthlessly stalk through their chosen suburbs, camera and notebook in hand, taking pictures and writing down numbers, hunting for the perfect house. This is not how it is with me. I am not destined to be the hunter; I am the hunted. Today I meandered down along the coast to Freo with a couple of books and a vague sense of wanting some coffee. I swung a left on Burke St and innocently glanced out of my window, and WHAM! A house got me! It had a little verandah that was patterned with sunlight through the shelter of a small tree. Its windows were like the cute little smiling eyes of Japanese anime girls and cheekily, it showed me a glimpse of its backyard. Adorable. I'm in love. Sighing at the thought of how many years it will yet be before I can aff

lorem ipsum

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. In web and print design, we use a block of text that we affectionality call "lorem ipsum". First used by an unknown printer in the 1500s, it is widely thought to be merely a space filler, a bunch of nonsense words that fill across the page in much the same fashion as real text. It helps typographers arrange their type and helps designers convey a sense of what a page will look like, without distracting people with the content. Well, today I became curious about lorem ipsum, so I dug around a little and discovered that it isn't nonsense at all. In fact, it was crafted thousands of years ago by a very sensible and intelligent man indeed - none other than Cicero! Our useful little lorem ipsum that pops up all over the web on unfinished pages, began its journey in 45 BC, when Cicero wrote "The Extremes of Good and Evil", or de Finibus Bonorum