48. The Hip-Hoppitty Property Hunt

The Case of the Easter Sundays

Hello, friend - hope you’ve had a good week!

If you’re reading this and we’re in the same timeline / Universe / augmented reality - Happy Easter Sunday you remarkable human! What a time to be alive!

Unlike the kings and queens of yesteryear, you have access to an infinite variety of hot cross bun flavours: choc chip, sour cherry, apple, burger sauce, iced vovo, vegemite and cheese … all the flavours you never asked for but will probably purchase to satisfy your curiosity .. or by accident.

Can we all agree that a hot cross bun is just a vehicle for consuming lashings of butter? Yes. By the way, if you’re not applying butter until it looks like cheese, you’re doing it wrong.

Anyway, regardless of how many chocolates or accidental iced vovo buns might be in your house at any given point this weekend - I have it on good authority that you are still the sweetest selection in a 5 block radius.

Perhaps even cuter than that rabbit who somehow got into your house. Seriously though … how does he get in?! Check your windows.

Snuck in your house. Laid some eggs. You’re welcome.

Fishbird Catch of the Week

We publish articles twice a week on the Fishbird Central website - every Wednesday and Saturday! This week’s included:

• Easter Fiction: 11 Easter-Adjacent Reads!

  • Everyone knows that the best thing to round out an Easter basket, is a cosy murder mystery or a chilling read about a bunny that just won't quit. In this post we challenge you to read 11 books that will have you giving the Easter Bunny a case of side-eye as he hops menacingly down the street. Murder is not just for Christmas, friends. Get your crime fiction fix this Easter and beyond!

Check out the latest post here - Easter Fiction

• April Art - Week 2, 2025!

  • In this post we join Detective Inspector Rick "Easter" Rabbiton as he stumbles upon an egg conspiracy master-minded by his nemesis Greg Grasshoppers! Greg has created an army: a chicken of doom, a scheming crocodile, a swim-shorted frog, and a confused hobbit with a hunger for trouble. Can Rick Rabbiton stop this eggstreme uprising, or will the final yolk be on him?! Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the Easter!

Check out the latest post here - April Art: Week 2, 2025!

The Jennifer Jukebox - An Exhausted Noise Machine

I don’t mind telling you, I am exhausted. Finding a new place to live is not as simple and relaxing as everyone will have you believe! On Saturday we spent 8 hours inspecting properties to potentially purchase.

Now when I close my eyes all I can see are laundries that won’t fit my new washing machine (everyone loves front-loaders apparently) and a real estate agent with a sphinx head who keeps talking to me in riddles.

On a side note, we’ve found the more energy my brain diverts to house hunting, the more nonsense and noise comes out of my mouth. So much so, that I was set a challenge this week by my other half … ‘see if you can be quiet for just 5 minutes’.

Before you call animal welfare, or whatever looks after Jennifers (a Jengineer?), it was said in jest but immediately put to the test.

Reader, I failed that challenge.

I am now essentially a Jennifer Jukebox, mixing nonsense tunes 24-7 for stress-discos in the kitchen and car. I can keep up a patter of verbal to-do lists and questions no-one has the answer to until the estate agents come home. I’m mashing up songs that should never be mashed, and spouting enough gibberish to fill a 2-bed 2-bath with a small study annex.

As Vanilla Ice so eloquently put it - “Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know. Give me a house, and I’ll go”.

We’ve made an offer on a unit, so will hear over the next few days if that lands in our favour. Might leave some of our Easter chocolate out for the real estate pixies to sweeten the deal.

Quick Fire Wrap Up

Currently Reading: ‘Call for the Dead’ by John le Carre. First in the George Smiley series - a tale of espionage and deceit. After a routine security check by Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds he’s being blamed for the man’s death, he begins his own investigation. On the very day that he’s ordered off the enquiry Smiley receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man’s death than previously imagined?

Currently Watching: Season 2 of Clarkson’s Farm on Prime. I’m late to the game with this one, but loving it. This show both cracks me up and makes me want to burn all my savings on a flight to the UK. Farming mayhem with a touch of heart.

Currently Singing Along To: ‘It’s Only the Beginning’ by Deborah Conway. “… It's only the beginning, but I've already gone and lost my mind. I feel like breaking window panes all up and down my street. Any day now I will hear you call …”

Have any book, song or show recommendations? Let me know in the comments! :)

Wishes for the Week

I bet you 3 family blocks of chocolate and a toothbrush, that you’re going to be amazing this week. You’ve yet to prove me wrong.

Be brave, be kind and - if in doubt, let that smile out. It’s a killer.

Stay cool, punks.

"Ask not for whom the rabbit bounces, it bounces for thee.'“ - Ernie Hemingway (probably)

Jen x