Issue 142

..driving-in-the-city impatience and exasperation. It’s a neat trick I jotted down the music that had become my soundtrack and I’ve just checked the dertails on the ABC Classic radio website. It was a guitar piece called Chamber Concerto by Shaun Rigney, whom I’ve not heard of before, played by one Antony Fielding*, whom I’ve not…

home rather than call the RACV, (only about 15 minutes away anyway), get a clothes hanger, walk back and break into my van all by myself. I’ll remember to park next to a criminal next time. ‘Never totally discount someone’s negative assessment of themselves’, is probably not exactly what I once read or heard, but…

..would be wool blend socks because pure woollen socks do tend to hole rather quickly and the little woman darning your socks by the light of the fire late at night is way out of fashion, not to mention totally un-PC. They do blend wool with some exotic materials these days, such as possum fur…

HG Wells? But surely he was a 19th century writer? What on earth could be relevant to today in his prognostications? Well, he was incredibly prolific and popular in his day and his books continue to inspire film-makers today. The War of the Worlds was probably his most famous piece of fiction but The Time…

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.. is as lovable as I obviously am. I think I mentioned that I heard a program on RN on the way home from a gig at The Lomond recently by a young-ish, deaf-ish BBC chap who’d ventured into the world of hearing aids and was trying to demystify the process for the large-ish section…