In search of a Christmas tradition »
My youngest son asked whether he’d be getting a Christmas sack at the end of his bed on Christmas morning. Since he no longer believes in Santa, he knows that his mother and father will be...
December 24 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »
Looking for cooler pastures »
A Brisbane friend told me her thermometer topped 41°C a week ago – and that was in the shade. Inside, it was a sweaty 36°C which, accompanied by humidity, makes things pretty well uncomfortable. She was moving at the time...
December 16 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »Subscription Options:
Set yourself free … »
I’ve done it. I’ve taken the radical step to take ‘them’ off. Not just hide ‘them’ … I deleted ‘them’. ‘They’ve’ gone. And I...
Dec 24 2009 / No comment / Read More »Veggie Tales »
We have an abundance of holy silver beet in our vegetable patch. Holy not in a religious sense, but rather that it has been nibbled...
Nov 19 2009 / No comment / Read More »Is it really that important? »
I was walking along a country lane near my home recently, mulling over all the things I had to do that day when in...
Aug 28 2009 / No comment / Read More »The games we play »
‘World Cup fever’, apparently, is ‘upon us’. What with several dozen posters, tens of advertisements and an impressively bright pair of billboards, it’s not...
Aug 25 2009 / No comment / Read More »Covertly Corporate »
It’s raining as I step out of the train and onto a sodden city central platform. I marvel at how I choose to go...
Jul 18 2009 / No comment / Read More »
