Issue 38

..big smiles from some picturesque extremity of Victoria. So, we walking dilettantes have a much to be modest about, but despite the take-up being less painful than the first time, (I didn’t get the stiff calves for instance – not that you can discern actual calves on my stick legs), I still find walking for…

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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…

.. past the aged beef of the veldt. Whilst I follow in descending order of hope the All Blacks and the Wallabies at the end of the day I would rather see a good game and my team beaten than otherwise. So I don’t really think that New Zealand deserved to win the final of…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. rammed down our throats then and so retained a healthy sense of inquisitiveness and, well, a healthy naivety. I feel sorry for kids missing out on a chunk of their childhood because they’re confronted with adults’ version of reality too soon. No wonder youth suicide is an issue… but…

..computing. I realised as I poured over specification sheets, internet sites and price lists that I hadn’t bought a computer since 1989 when I commenced a Post Graduate course in Computing at the then Chisholm Institute which was soon subsumed into the cavernous qualification mill of Monash University. I remember more than twenty years ago…