Issue 72

..of two young ladies ( I am using the term ‘young’ loosely in the same way as you might describe the morals and ethics of the NSW Labor party) who rowed backwards below us for about an hour. The convention of rowing is that you face the blunt end (the stern) so that you can…

..some lost pride with a fast and lucrative sale on Gumtree. It was overcast anyway and it was also getting dark so I had to move fast. I was heaving the antiquated looking beast into a more photogenic position one of the wheels fell off – and then I remembered that was one of the…

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.. in the first century BC and capture by pirates might have been described as ‘an occupational hazard for Roman aristocrats* . Among their more celebrated captives was Julius Caesar who, when the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents, indignantly claimed he was worth fifty. He also told his captors that that he would…

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