Issue 89

..Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. I think it’s my first ‘motion capture’ movie on the big screen, (although I’ve seen bits of Beowulf on Foxtel) and, while it’s impressively realistic in capturing movement accurately, it falls a bit flat in nearly every other respect. Having said that, the backgrounds are stupendously rich and detailed and…

..with an annoyingly cheerful ‘Good morning’. Some time is spent contemplating what I would do with all the money I am totally convinced that I am going to win in the next lottery draw, a conviction which has gone totally unrewarded. Annoyingly I know that I have a better chance of being struck by a…

..linguistic refuge for the poor sermoniser. He, (it was always ‘he’ in those days), might start off with a quotation from the Bible, but then he was on his own, unless he was guilty of plagiarising from the book of 500 Great Sermons – (Guaranteed to Rock your Congregation in the Bosom of Abraham), which,…

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..would be wool blend socks because pure woollen socks do tend to hole rather quickly and the little woman darning your socks by the light of the fire late at night is way out of fashion, not to mention totally un-PC. They do blend wool with some exotic materials these days, such as possum fur…

..which in its turn used to be known as the Bank of NSW – aah, those were the days!). She had a young son, Jack, who was at his first year at school. All the first years had to be assessed for their swimming prowess, to which end a dozen or so were lined up…