Issue 136

..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…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. Good coffee can make my day. Bad coffee (like bad wine) can leave me confused and depressed. I love tea. Tea is dependable. If I want to be refreshed, especially on a hot, sweaty day, tea is the drink. Iced tea? Love it. Herbal teas? Quite like some of them….

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.. in the course of being interviewed by Michael I discovered quite a lot about the goings-on of Geof before and after our lives briefly intersected in an exchange of letters back in the ‘70s. This Geof-type information curiously resonated with the first writer, Shane Homan’s brief, which is to record the history of venues,…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..the sushi bar in the arcade and had some sushi rolls and miso soup before finally heading to the carpark and my date with the supermarket. When I got to the carpark I was astonished to find the lone busker still baying at the sullen sky, so I walked up…

..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…