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Letters to the editor
..about the issues they raise and are careful to get the tone and the clarity of their arguments just right to pass the editors’ stringent scrutiny, real or imagined. Sure, the letters are still not all great, but the standard is generally streets ahead of the ‘anything goes’ FB sewer. And I suspect that a…
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Holler fer a Marshall
.. it was firing there was nothing quite as awesome as Ariel live. But Ariel was as erratic as it was incandescent and it couldn’t last. I was so crushed by the whole experience I retired on the spot and toyed with the idea of never performing again. By way of taking a break I…
Word of the week
..taciturn demeanour would be interpreted today as at least pathologically reserved, if not downright stand-offish. His behaviour even seems a little odd in the context of the era, but perhaps because I missed some of the early series I’ve also missed the rationale for the apparent chip on his shoulder. I wasn’t alive then, despite…
This is not Cadel
..self-assigned speed ratings. I had put myself in the class that would be able to average between 20 and 25 kph for the distance . And so it felt like I waited 30 minutes before I cleared the start line and wobbled off along Eastern Beach. I had been inveigled into this sporting event, the…