“The limpid waters of Lake Owatawetness ….. abound with every known variety of fish. Near to its surface, so close that the angler may reach out his hand and stroke them, schools of pike, pickerel, mackerel, doggerel, and...
Category - Animals
OK, I’m ready to confess here and now. I confess that I often send emails to myself. It’s sad really, like the old song “I’m going to sit right down and write myself a letter (and make believe it came from you)”...
What I am talking about is a piece of paper or a smartphone code that gives me a discount price. Voucher, coupon, whichever, whatever. Naturally there is a hierarchy in the world of vouchers as there is in the world...
“Jiggers used to stand and breathe at the open window for half an hour before dressing. He said it expanded his lungs. He might of course, have done it at a shoe store with a boot stretcher, but after all it cost him...
“There there” said the doting mother to her six year old son who had fallen over and cracked the screen of his phone for the third time in four weeks. “What’s the lesson we’ve learnt this month from all this...
The three older women were walking up the ramp to catch a train. I happened to be within earshot of them. “Belinda brought it back from Bali” one of them said to the others. I was intrigued by this scrap of...
I was sitting in the doctors’ waiting room early one morning because I had torn a muscle in my arm. An older-than-me man was sitting nearby. I guess he was pushing ninety. He said his name was Leo. “Leo the lion” he...
I was on my daily walk around the lake. A smallish older woman with white fluffy hair was holding onto the lead of her small white fluffy dog – a West Highland terrier. She was standing at a bend in the path talking to...
I was visiting John and Beth, missionary friends working in Cantana in Thailand. I went there to build a small wooden boat for them to use at a youth campsite set on a lake. I hadn’t done any woodworking since making a...
When it comes to burglary I have some street cred. In 1790 a distant relative back in England was convicted of highway robbery and housebreaking. John P was sentenced to be transported to New South Wales as a convict. Old JP...