Issue 140

.. is no immediate evidence for this assumption. For example, there have been occasions when we’ve been playing to an apparently indifferent crowd, and yet when we’ve finished playing, a selection of those very same people has made a point of letting us know just how thrilled they were with the music. That has a…

..incisors eventually surrendered. I could tell the difference between linoleum and the Italian tiles that they tried to imitate without needing to resort to a hammer and chisel. In the film ‘Stagecoach’ when the Indian fell amongst the team of horses, went under the stagecoach , caught the axle and climbed back onto the swaying…

.. advised me there might be a good twenty minute wait as there were a few patients ahead of me. Indeed there were, but it was actually over an hour later that I was finally called into the surgery. In the meantime I’d read The Australian (thoroughly), sent elaborate texts to various people, written an…

..bought. More than that, if I don’t like them, I don’t have to finish them. The ultimate luxury. I have been a prolific reader and buyer of books. I buy books for myself and books for my friends with the intent, apart from giving my friends pleasure, of borrowing them sooner rather than later. It…

..socio-economic status of the students. Private schools send all their problems to State schools where teachers cope with extraordinary generosity of spirit. Most of the time. But this, perhaps not too tangentially, brings to my attention the absurd amounts that CEOs of large corporations are paid, which is both disproportionate and absurd in relation to…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. But then some silly words jumped out and put themselves to the silly little tune, and before long a verse, and another, and a chorus.. Bugger me! I had a song bloody writing itself. I couldn’t resist it any longer and rushed, rushed I tell you, into the barely used…