A friend recently hosted a 16th birthday party at her home. Planning was military. There would be no alcohol and she and her husband hired three burly body guards to check guests at the front entrance. Several adults were also on hand to peruse the periphery of the property checking for opportunistic gate crashers. The […]
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 the ones tip-toeing to his bed in the dead of night to deposit treasure in a lumpy pillowcase. Even […]
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 which made the heated experience even more difficult to cope with. In short, it was sheer hell. But there […]
