I went to the lake for peace and quiet. Why did it end with me “All shook up”? At the lake entrance I saw a woman striding along like the leader of a marching band. She had two sheepdogs on a tight leash. Both shivered with...
Category - Animals
From personal experience, I can tell you that travelling internationally with a dragon is not easy. Airline regulations for Class D “Hazardous” creatures require owners to supply fire-proof travel crates and to fit a special...
Warning – this article may contain gross exaggeration, painful puns and slight traces of humour. Do not read if you’re feeling overly full of food as it may cause vomiting or worse. It was a special birthday dinner...
I saw a picture on the internet of a tongue lolling greyhound who had been labelled “Jerry from HR” in the staff profiles of a particular group – and that started me thinking. That’s it! Dogs would be great as...
FOOD & DRINK We all love adding extra ingredients to what we eat, drink, use or make until it is “just right” like Goldilocks’ porridge. Adding milk and sugar to coffee? Fine, whatever tickles your taste buds. How about...
A Shorten Humorless interview with Shaun Lorne, the Guerilla Gardener. SH: Welcome Shaun. You’re creating quite a stir in the world of gardening with your new book and podcast “The Guerilla Gardener – Smashing...
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.” Emo Philips (1990) Admit it. We get close to our computers just like we get close to our dogs. They both have funny little habits like lying down...
I grew up in the Wild West, the wild western suburbs of Sydney, in the 1950s and 60s. In some surprising ways it was just like the American Wild West of the 1850s and 60s. We knew all about the real Wild West from TV series...
“So tell me exactly what happened, from when you got in the car, until the moment of … impact.” said Terri “Tiger” Brown, investigative TV journalist. She had turned up unannounced at Barry Gray’s front door with a...
They have read the books and done the “Good to Great” training seminars but somehow greatness slips through their fingers and dribbles into the kitchen sink.