Issue 37

..late twenties, early thirties, dark complexion and some variation of Asian ethnicity. There’s a cheerful bespectacled Asian chap who also mans the counter and who converses with her in whatever Asian language whom I suspect could be her father, except for his entirely opposite disposition. Everything is too much trouble for this woman. I’ve tried…

home rather than call the RACV, (only about 15 minutes away anyway), get a clothes hanger, walk back and break into my van all by myself. I’ll remember to park next to a criminal next time. ‘Never totally discount someone’s negative assessment of themselves’, is probably not exactly what I once read or heard, but…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. (I think it was on the ABC) about an apparently typical family in North Korea. (Let’s get over the ‘what is typical’ debate before we go any further). Of course, by Western standards they weren’t that well off in terms of consumer goods that may or may not qualify…

..on FaceBook and Twitter and the room sold out in hours apparently. While we awaited for the appearance on stage of the gentle professor the screens were promoting the advantages of taking up a course at the various arms of Deakin University. The VC gave a short introductory speech – and then the old man…