Issue 62

..the easement – I think we might’ve even gone home for lunch on occasions. Our home’s proximity proved crucial in one particular incident when, in my self-appointed role as boy-with-the-tightest-belt-in-school and in the middle of a game of bar-the-door in the school yard I suddenly felt my belt snap and my shorts come dangerously close…

.. tastes embrace the elegant and refined, she still prides herself on being able to spot a bargain. Understandably she’s been hassling me for quite a while about the medieval trackie pants and a few weeks ago she spotted some bargain trackies coming up in Aldi. Aldi. Aldi was unknown to me before she and…

..more people that need to be fed and watered. This is not surprising. It might, however, fill one with a general sense of foreboding for the health of the planet After a while this becomes background noise, ever present unpleasant facts that become a steady drone of something which we sensibly decide we can’t do…

…as you turned sixteen. I reminded Dick about the Wolseley the other day and we both remembered the other as having been responsible for dinging it at some stage. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the guilty party, but I do remember a hairy moment on the Summit Road with a few of my friends on…

..global political domination. Or to hide their affairs with attractive members of either sex, dreadful schemes with the tobacco industry or some financial skulduggery. These ‘terminated with extreme prejudice’ people may not have stood before any tribunal to have their crimes weighed in the balance of Justice, but extinguished they are with the single bullet…

Currently we have state and federal government where advertising is seen not only as the most appropriate and almost certainly the only activity to solve a problem. The billboard struck me as the equivalent of Speed Kills advertisements which are seen as a substitute for proper driver training and a way of eliminating the gross…