Issue 150

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..when the relatively youthful and decidedly hip Sommelier appeared and, with gay abandon, she led the decision to place the nights drinking menu in his capable hands. And why not? It is not called a wine room for nothing. He knew the list intimately, having selected them personally, and given the criteria of an approximate…

I’ve mentioned the ABC TV show Big Ideas before. I tend to record the various episodes on IQ and review them at my leisure. There’s no particular theme to Big Ideas and I can easily be put off viewing a particular episode just by scanning the synopsis, but sometimes the description is so inscrutable that…

.. to TJM. Anyway, now that the parameters of my existence are becoming confrontingly clear I’m not sure that I’ll have the time to expand on an idea for a sequel to TJM called The Cosmic Detective that my late wife Helen and I started working on in the ‘90s. I got as far as…

..is the issue. For example, I’m certain the food ‘experts’ would decry the quality of food we ate back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. (If we’d seen a sign saying ‘fat free’ back then, we would have assumed it was free fat being advertised). It’s simply that in those days we didn’t eat nearly the…

Robbo’s blah cont. I would like to take this opportunity to thank some people whom I didn’t thank during my speech. Please forgive me, but I was in another state of being, in a happy wedding trance, intoxicated with marital bliss. Anyway here we go….. On behalf of my wife and I, I’d like to…