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Christmas smashed, New Year saturated!
After a beautiful day with family on the 25th December, my husband and I settled down to watch a movie just after 8.00pm. Lightning was flashing outside and we were looking forward to some rain for the garden, but we were not expecting what was about to happen. About...
W.H.O.’s on First?
You know that great comedy routine by Abbott & Costello in the black & white era?("Who's on first, What's on second and I-don't-know's on third...") It's fairly straightforward by comparison with the trick being played on us by the W.H.O.,which is...
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Playing with [V] words
Early in the Plandemic I wrote a blog called 'The Iris and the Axe (just add the Vs)'; it's time now for 'The Oice', only this title doesn't work as well. (That said, it's only a short distance to 'oink', which is not far off the point…) Piggybank image courtesy...
The Shadow of ‘Should’
I'm the sort of person who, if told to go 'this way', will go 'that way'. For example, when my parents wanted to buy me a geared bike to ride to school and I, the 'I'll-do-it-my-way' teenager, chose a manual bike. Probably because I liked the colour. (Bright...
The Shocking Truth About Shocking Truths
"In this upcoming webinar Expert Xyz is going to reveal the shocking truth about..." We have probably all been hooked by lines like this, and yet, even though we've now seen and heard it all (and are feeling jaded as a result of repeated, often empty promises),...
My Middle Eastern Aunt, the ‘Middle Path’, and Musical News
You blink, and a month goes past... Just as I was about to write my May blog, I was called back to Melbourne for my aunt's funeral. She was my favourite aunt, the one we grew up with, mother of the cousins we played with every alternate weekend. Like my father, she...