Issue 68

..when the relatively youthful and decidedly hip Sommelier appeared and, with gay abandon, she led the decision to place the nights drinking menu in his capable hands. And why not? It is not called a wine room for nothing. He knew the list intimately, having selected them personally, and given the criteria of an approximate…

..with an annoyingly cheerful ‘Good morning’. Some time is spent contemplating what I would do with all the money I am totally convinced that I am going to win in the next lottery draw, a conviction which has gone totally unrewarded. Annoyingly I know that I have a better chance of being struck by a…

..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…

..interval between, might be more ‘natural’ than trying to compress sleep into the one eight hour stretch. I seem to recall hearing on a radio program that the segmented pattern of sleep might been preserved in the ritual of monastery life but otherwise the tradition has slipped from modern society’s collective memory. Having said that…

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