Category: …and other things

Neville Chamberlain or Charlie Wilson?

Recently my very own Prime Minister declared the need for “restraint” in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris and Mali. According to some sources, there have been 291 terror attacks in the course of the 2015 calendar year thus far, (to the 26th November). Restraint may be seen by some to be a […]

at the crossroads

Australian newspapers this weekend had but one issue in their ‘Commentary’ section(s) – Paris. For once I read everyone’s opinions. By the time I post this, at least nineteen people have died in Mali. For once, media coverage was all over the hostage crisis, and our hearts go out to the families of those that died, […]

Lest we forget

I took my choc lab down the beach this morning. She loves to play with the other dogs and chase the ball while I talk to the ‘locals,’ a little community all their own. Our sense of safety and security never occurred to us. We all waded our feet in the water and walked on […]

Together…

Football can be an unforgiving sport. In Australia, we just had our version of the Super Bowl, the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) Grand Finals, both played over a Long Weekend. Both games were, as we love to say these days, ‘to die for.’ But one thing rang true more than […]

‘Just’

“Hi honey, it’s just me.” Meaning “it’s only me.” This is the context within which we so often use the word ‘just,’ especially when talking to our loved ones. The more familiar you are with one another and the closer you are emotionally to the person to whom you’re talking, the more likely you’ll add the word […]

on the face of it

Setting the table for dinner, Harry noticed the salt shaker had pepper mixed in with it. Harry was a curious sort, and, strange as it may seem to others, it got Harry thinking, is that what I’d look like if I grew facial hair? And so he set himself a task to grow a beard in a […]

reaching out

I’ll reach out to you tomorrow and discuss the specifics. This came via e-mail from a business associate a few days ago. It wasn’t the first time. In fact, it’s been occurring regularly, almost as often as I take my morning walks. I reached out to Andrew and he was able to advise of the […]

house of cards

And the house came tumbling down. Or so it seems likely to at some stage. The title alone lends itself to the star of the show falling from the heady peaks of power, glory and notoriety, to the lowly troughs of being ‘yesterday’s man,’ once the rooster, now the feather duster. Yet there appears little […]

dream…

I found myself in a kind of trance, a daze, a dream. It began with a reflection on the night before, which now seemed distant, a vague memory of debauchery and mayhem. I’d survived it without even an alcohol-induced stupor, though if memory served, others hadn’t been so lucky. The driver seemed lucid enough but our […]