Issue 152

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. David packing. (Or so the story goes – David’s recently been giving my brother and me unsolicited hints that there’s another side to the story). Jump forward forty years and I’m holidaying in NZ and stopping off in Rororua on the way to see mum in Auckland. To my…

..also was invited by landed gentry and aristocracy into the country houses of Central Europe.’ These days he is a relatively unknown figure, but during WWII he pulled off one of the more extraordinary stunts of the conflict. It was made into a passable film with an entirely miscast Dirk Bogarde, but achieved true immortality…

..burn your effigy of choice – I would recommend Rupert Murdoch if you are of an incendiary mind. In the Northern Territory and, until this year the ACT, you could still buy fireworks perhaps because they calculated the fun versus injury equation in favour of fun. In my youth, a state that as for most…

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.. expand its floor space) can be an exercise in angst and frustration as you sift through the many variations available in every conceivable item. Should you buy this version of raspberry jam because it’s an Australian brand? Or is it just packaged here while the fruit is actually from Korea? Or is some of…