Issue 126 (2)

..the even more smoke filled proof-reading room. Do I remember him? No, but reporters had normally gone to the pub by the time that we arrived probably straight from the same hotel. Maybe our paths crossed on the way to The Gresham? Somewhat curiously I became a member of the proof-reading room through Hugh Coley…

..and Uzbekistan lie to the north, Iran the west, Pakistan to the south and the People’s Republic of China to the east. If you didn’t live there it would have little to recommend it and a large percentage of the population has become refugees from decades of conflict – mostly fleeing into Pakistan. Currently a…

..the easement – I think we might’ve even gone home for lunch on occasions. Our home’s proximity proved crucial in one particular incident when, in my self-appointed role as boy-with-the-tightest-belt-in-school and in the middle of a game of bar-the-door in the school yard I suddenly felt my belt snap and my shorts come dangerously close…

..Rock, near the Geelong sewage outflow, to Barwon Heads. On the Saturday we went about half way along so that we could return in time for lunch and wine with friends, but on the Sunday we went the whole way there and back. Two interesting things. On the Saturday Mary had dropped one of her…

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.. of the aluminium dinghy, vacuuming the Axminster or bathing the pigs. The watch’s movement is composed of either 686 or 694 parts (depending on whom you believe) that come together to form twelve of the most allegedly consequential horological complications**; the tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon age, leap year cycle, day of the week, month,…