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From January to December 2009 I had the pleasure of being at home with my eldest son, Austin, for months nine to 19 of his young life. It was a blast, but it wasn't all easy.

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Saturday, March 28

Old CD, New Theme Song

One thing I was really looking forward to upon returning to Sydney was a chicken schnitzel at Una’s in Darlinghurst. Another was reacquainting myself with my CD collection.

It kinda went to London with me, stripped of its physical presence and loaded to my iPod, but there’s nothing like slipping a disc into a stereo and leafing through the sleeve notes.

Such is the pleasure this gives me that I now have piles of CDs next to each of our stereos, and every now and then I indulge myself with a fossick through the cupboard to find some more to top these up.

Today’s indulgence led me to a long-forgotten sampler CD from now-defunct Melbourne label Candle Records. It kicks off with a gem of a tune, Stepford Husband by Tim Oxley, which I instantly selected as my new theme song.

It wasn’t that I was looking for a theme song - nor have I recently been watching Ally McBeal - but once it leapt out of the speakers it was obvious that it had to be. It starts thus:

Washing up is fun
Unless you do it five times in one day
Then it’s not

I follow my kids around
Picking up their things and putting them back down
Then I pick them up again

Stepford Husband style
You walk a lot of miles
Around the house


Another gem I was delighted to rediscover is a DVD of Candle Records' 10th birthday concert tour from 2004, which Kate and I saw the Sydney leg of at the Metro. Alas, Tim does not feature. He does, however, have a MySpace page, streaming on which is a new song call House Husband.

Not as good its Stepford cousin though, so I’m sticking with the theme song I’ve got.


Stepford Husband is the opening track on the 2005 album Kitchen Songs. You can sample (and buy) at the iTunes Store.

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