Issue 160

..could access the music room, which was equipped with a grand piano and comfortable looking chairs with flower print covers – it probably doubled as a lounge / reception room now that I think about it. Our grandmother was a formidable pianist and we would spend many an evening singing selections from South Pacific and…

..interval between, might be more ‘natural’ than trying to compress sleep into the one eight hour stretch. I seem to recall hearing on a radio program that the segmented pattern of sleep might been preserved in the ritual of monastery life but otherwise the tradition has slipped from modern society’s collective memory. Having said that…

..attempt to try to be cool is to fail. Now I will be the first to admit that I am inclined to write with excessive gravity about subjects that would bore the pants off a member of the Ayn Rand Institute, the Enid Blyton Book Club, or the Young Farmer’s Association. I realise that it…

Even more disconcerting was Dick’s and my reaction to our step-father’s wooing our mother – I’m told we charged into Even more disconcerting was Dick’s and my reaction to our step-father’s wooing our mother – I’m told we charged into the lounge-room where Mum and Sam were sitting on the sofa and delivered some mighty…

I’m personally not convinced that vitamin supplements are a vital adjunct to modern living and I decided to give up taking vitamins more than twenty years ago with no noticeable ill effects – which didn’t entirely surprise me as they’d had no noticeable positive effects over the period I took them either. That’s not to…

..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…