Issue 48

.. but realised that he is a New Zealander so the sunburnt country will have to make do with Clive Palmer. Tentatively I might say that we have better gun laws but the similarities between the two countries are far greater than any differences. While we don’t have a George Bush in the closet we…

I’m back! And I don’t mention the Mighty Tiges once!! (oops..) Hello and welcome. After one month and one day with a lower back problem, I am at last back in the land of the vertical. I cannot express the joy I feel to be be TALL again and of being able to do THINGS….

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..satisfy his thirst for things Hampson and had acquired (from Wales I think) some volumes of Frank Hampson’s work for Eagle in the ’50s. Frank Hampson inspired me too. As a youngster I could scarcely wait for the weekly copy of Eagle to arrive so I could devour the latest…

– and in fact it was just two days later I got the fateful phone call. The problem sewer is a wrinkle the new owner is probably unaware of as yet, but I guess if you’ve got $1.29m to spend on a property, another $10,000 to upgrade the sewers isn’t going to make a lot…