Issue 155

..differentiates Melbourne from the rest of the world. Or maybe just Australia. It gives locals the joy of being the best in the world at a game that no one else plays or wants to play; in this it is like gridiron football writ very small. Rugby is at least played by more countries though…

.. nylon-string guitar for instance sounds unnervingly ambivalent and jangly as a result, especially in the top three strings. Not to mention that my right ear is so shot to pieces that I prefer to wear an ear plug rather than a hearing aid when I’m playing or listening to even slightly amplified music, as…

.. the Rudd boys originated. As a film it exemplified the last embers of ember that were still being instilled in the bosom of New Zealand’s youth. What I had not realised was that the 2.6-metre tall marble statue, which was badly damaged in the earthquake, had been sculpted by Scott’s wife Kathleen. It had…

There is no doubt that the Sydney CBD lacks the culinary variety that Melbourne has in spades and alleys. This particular alleged restaurant was located on the third floor at the top of an extremely steep set of stairs, which ended up being my most strenuous exercise for the week. Malcolm is a bit larger…

.. deliver words of wisdom, affection and good humour. I don’t know the BM but the MoH, Una, will be sure to be formidably entertaining as she is, like Elizabeth, a lawyer. Elizabeth specialises in contract law, which may mean that the marriage Act will need to be rewritten, but Una usually appears for the…

.. to be some sort of ‘interruption in the data flow’ and that somebody would look at it over the next two working days. So, when I can make an excuse to go to somebody’s place with a working Internet connection, I’ve been sending off another instalment of our monthly e-mail on their PCs. That’s…