Issue 138

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…

..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…

.. months older than I am. I’ll have to do some work on my avuncularity. Nigella Lawson is slightly more problematic. I find her simpering to the camera lens a little disconcerting, but if I’m so dog-tired I can’t even manipulate the remote, I’ll hang in to Nigella’s show till the family arrives with the…

..whilst trying not to be disturbed by the repetitious recounting of weekend exploits of the young, old and terminally stupid. Should I so choose I won’t be working again, as just before Christmas I was packaged out from my place of employment of the past 20 years, the result of one of its periodic and…

.. is a Canadian citizen and Matt Canavan is an Italian citizen, claim that they did not know that had dual citizenship. Waters was born in Canada and moved to Australia as an infant. After Scott Ludlum, also another Green Senator discovered that he not actually given up his ability to carry both and Australian…

.. Paris and Spain, to which end Dick purchased the latest in trendy back packs, which he proudly showed me on the night I visited them recently in Warrandyte. (See Dick’s Toolbox). I said it looked very fine, but one should be careful when wielding such an item in polite society, and told him this…