Issue 93

..somehow there was a feeling of restrained animosity which no other religion engendered, probably because other religions existed only in the coloured pages of The National Geographic, in countries far removed and absolutely foreign. Many did not even speak English or wear proper trousers. To be frank, Christchurch in the 1950s and 1960s was not…

Dick’s Toolbox cont. ..real winner. I wandered into this musical genre through Stephen May, who learnt guitar from Gary Young. Stephen thought that as Mike is musically brilliant, some talent might have devolved to me – a supposition that would have pleased neither a geneticist nor a behavioural scientist. Mr May, apart from being a…

.. sound of rain relentlessly thundering down on my roof – and filtering down through the loungeroom ceiling into my now inadequate symphony of pots and pans and thudding damply onto the attractive pooh-brown carpet. I realised that I was far too annoyed to go back to sleep, and concluded that the light was only…

..computing. I realised as I poured over specification sheets, internet sites and price lists that I hadn’t bought a computer since 1989 when I commenced a Post Graduate course in Computing at the then Chisholm Institute which was soon subsumed into the cavernous qualification mill of Monash University. I remember more than twenty years ago…

..be burying thirty-five of our citizens per week. It would attract some comment in Melbourne as the trains would effectively stop running. But I suspect that the trains in Mumbai cannot afford to stop running more than momentarily given that seven million people use the suburban rail system on a daily basis. Naturally on the…

The Promoters cont. I’d have to say that our version of I’ll Be Gone and the almost as inevitable couple of blues tunes, absolutely stole the show. Just about everybody told us how touched they were, and then asked if we were still performing (!) etc. In so many ways it was a wonderful couple…