Issue 63

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…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. that it was the background music for the show that really gave her the creeps. Now, the background music for Doctor Who is not to be confused with Ron Grainer’s theme music, which is one of the all-time great TV series’ themes. No, this is the background music, the…

..she was still only ninety-six this was still a source of on-going annoyance. In her later years she had been persuaded to give up driving half the length of the North Island to visit my mother after she revealed that she was constantly worried that she would not be able to pick up a hitch-hiker…

..days as a kindy kid armed with gallons of foul-smelling poster paints that always ended up resolving to the colour of shit), has different cultural connotations around the world and at different times in its history. ‘..it was an act of true cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow.’…

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…

..nowadays being arrested in underwear representing the flag of your host country. They don’t weigh you, no matter that you look like a beached whale and you’re being constantly towed out to sea. On they go, over-flowing the aisles and seats. This is in stark contrast to the old days when they weighed both you…