..Centre and Right’s backbone of Australia. About two years ago as I waxed loquacious about caravan parks as one model for solving the problem of too many people occupying too much space at too greater cost. If you drive around Australia’s major cities you see good arable land being swallowed up by McMansions for workers…
..adventure couture-wise, mostly in an attempt to be the opposite of Spectrum in every respect, but also reflecting what was going on in the pop scene at the time with the advent of glam rock – you could say that visually at least we weren’t all that different to Gary Glitter and Marc Bolan, both…
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Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..laws by otherwise responsible citizens. Why do they need to be activated anyway? I’ll tell you why – because it’s technically possible. If I were king, I’d change this foolishness with a stroke of my regal pen. And, what is it generally with the proliferation of road signs? The recent…
Even more disconcerting was Dick’s and my reaction to our step-father’s wooing our mother – I’m told we charged into Even more disconcerting was Dick’s and my reaction to our step-father’s wooing our mother – I’m told we charged into the lounge-room where Mum and Sam were sitting on the sofa and delivered some mighty…
..have used many of his own words from the book that was also published at the time. The invention of the printing press not only enabled the democratisation of knowledge but also saw the end of the age of everyday reliance on memory and deep symbolic representation. In a world without printing literacy is rather…
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..made any sense; nothing had a name. All I knew was fear. Not surprisingly, we were late for the appointment. Some people on other drugs, like ecstasy for instance, report that they feel that the universe is radiating love, and I suppose all this proves is that your view of…
Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. savings purchasing attractive, over-priced land in nice locations and growing grapes. Sometimes even making wine. Many years ago I helped some dear friends in one of these quixotic adventures, and it was very hard work, though in the end they did make some more than credible wine. Their happy progress was…
.. 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…
..think where I would insert a car chase into ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ or ‘War and Peace’ I am sure that roar of a seven litre V8 bouncing off the rev limiter would add wider audience appeal. Which brings me only slightly indirectly, much like a TomTom GPS car navigation system in the…
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..It’s bad enough having stuff thrust upon me, but when I actively seek to bring more of it into the house, I begin to wonder at my sanity. Afterall, I’ve already got a whole lot more stuff than I can handle and only a tiny house – something’s gotta go!…
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..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…
.. I thought, the best. Perhaps this is the fate of all wines being tasted last in a line-up. For those interested it was a Chateau Decru-Beaucaillou – which you have never heard of – and I hadn’t either until then. Whilst you could probably get it now for less than I paid for it…
..Wall. (Check out the wall on my Facebook page) David Langsam commented that ‘..the Palace has the potential to be a good venue, but the wrestling and golf and rotating sports on big screens is a terrible distraction.’ Ron Mahony, a fellow Cantabrian musician responded with, ‘Hell – we used to play with both the…
.. plumbing and television, but maybe this New Year it’s time for a revision of my list. As I was driving back to Curtin from Fyshwick last Thursday evening, having successfully bought some deck oil as instructed from the Fyshwick Bunnings, I was thinking about how much easier it is to get around Canberra these…
Which, having a reasonably good visual memory, is what I remember most. However this is an ability that serves you absolutely no good at all in a blind tasting. I lack the ability to taste a glass of wine and confidently say that it was a 2002 Domaine Leroy Latricieres-Chambertin Grand Cru just because that…
..Elimination’ may give you a clue but she also does a great line in off-beat footnotes. Did you know that Eskimo hunters travelling alone on still, glassy waters are sometimes stricken by ”kayak angst” – delusions that their boat is flooding or that that the front end is either sinking or rising up out of…
..days as a kindy kid armed with gallons of foul-smelling poster paints that always ended up resolving to the colour of shit), has different cultural connotations around the world and at different times in its history. ‘..it was an act of true cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow.’…