Month: March 2026

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..graced either the stage, or the bench. The reception afterwards turned into the party of the year and threatened never to stop. My aged mother was persuaded to dance or at least bob slightly in the same spot, and the music, highlighted by Mike singing “I’ll be Gone” unaccompanied, was non-stop and loud. Relatives were…

.. nylon-string guitar for instance sounds unnervingly ambivalent and jangly as a result, especially in the top three strings. Not to mention that my right ear is so shot to pieces that I prefer to wear an ear plug rather than a hearing aid when I’m playing or listening to even slightly amplified music, as…

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.. advised me there might be a good twenty minute wait as there were a few patients ahead of me. Indeed there were, but it was actually over an hour later that I was finally called into the surgery. In the meantime I’d read The Australian (thoroughly), sent elaborate texts to various people, written an…

Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. Finnish or Urdu for a moment longer. Not only that, their TV, books, magazines and newspapers are all in a foreign language. And whilst the canon of English literature is vast and strewn with masterpieces, such as Peyton Place and Harry Potter, we only really know the literature of other languages…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..the sushi bar in the arcade and had some sushi rolls and miso soup before finally heading to the carpark and my date with the supermarket. When I got to the carpark I was astonished to find the lone busker still baying at the sullen sky, so I walked up…

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Dick’s Toolbox cont. ..whose pecking order was determined before we arrived, and that survived, indifferent to our presence, after the year or less that we spent there. The law of the jungle was demonstrated on the monkey bars, and the odorous boys’ toilets, that had green high water marks from incontinent seven years old trying…