Andrew Herrick

Jan 11, 2025 | theguardian.com | Andrew Herrick

A chiropractor once told me that anyone who pays more than $1,000 for a mattress is wasting their money. So with that in mind, in 2023 my wife and I scoured bedding outlets and factories as well as websites offering reviews and advice on how to replace our ageing queen-size slab with the “perfect” mattress. One Melbourne store suggested we buy a mattress “purpose designed to grant you your best night’s sleep, every night”, with pillows “to help you sleep like a baby”.

Dec 21, 2024 | theguardian.com | Andrew Herrick

You decided to do it differently this year. You usually buy online, with high-minded principle, from a company owned by the least-loathsome billionaire you can find. Instead, this Christmas you gritted your teeth and drove in a hot car to a local business where you (finally) found a park. Then you steadfastly hunted down the gifts that your family members simply must have, worked your way up the cattle race to the counter, upon which you triumphantly spread your purchases.

Jul 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Andrew Herrick

‘The honey-coloured one with the funny hat,” said Myles, our youngest son. “I’m calling her Honey!” With that, we’d completed our family mission to choose a mixed flock of chickens at a rural poultry farm. And so we set off on the return journey to Melbourne with three cardboard cartons containing six ISA Brown laying hens and three pet bantams. Since it was late in the day, the whole flock went into our fox-proof coop, with the usual settling-in biffo.

Jun 30, 2024 | rvtravel.com | Tony Barthel |Andrew Herrick |Nanci Dixon |Cheri Sicard

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Jun 20, 2024 | msn.com | Andrew Herrick

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