Year: 2026

  • Cred

    .. to be some sort of ‘interruption in the data flow’ and that somebody would look at it over the next two working days. So, when I can make an excuse to go to somebody’s place with a working Internet connection, I’ve been sending off another instalment of our monthly e-mail on their PCs. That’s…

  • Unrepresentative swill

    It has been a hard won battle to gain a universal suffrage and all the associated democratic rights and responsibilities. It is imperfect, but to bring out the Winston Churchill chestnut yet again ”…. it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried…

  • Del boy

    .. tour I’m involved in at the moment – even older than Brian Cadd – and I was reminded of this fact when having one of my several chats with fellow MOTE guest singer and ‘male, independent Australian singer-songwriter based in Melbourne’, Lior. I’m nearly twice Lior’s age, (he turned 36 a couple of weeks…

  • Lilydale

    that there is a world where you could travel where everything looks much the same, where there is no sense of place. Just the same experience. The perfect model is the airport where pretty much no matter where you are it is deliberately the same experience. Many travellers must wonder whether the plane merely flew…

  • Difference

    ..the easement – I think we might’ve even gone home for lunch on occasions. Our home’s proximity proved crucial in one particular incident when, in my self-appointed role as boy-with-the-tightest-belt-in-school and in the middle of a game of bar-the-door in the school yard I suddenly felt my belt snap and my shorts come dangerously close…

  • The live animal trade

    …death. Over half a century later it is still a very vivid memory. Perhaps as a consequence I have little sympathy for the live animal trade. Over the years, we have seen sheep by the thousands die in ships on the way to the Middle East in hot and inadequately ventilated ships and now the…