A Shorten Humorless lunchtime interview with Mr Cryptic, a well known business tycoon famous for his economical use of food, money and words. SH: Welcome Mr Cryptic. I’d like to ask you a few questions about how you...
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We live in the mild temperate southern part of Australia, so you may think that we would not be troubled by avalanches, but you would be wrong. I’m not talking about snow. We don’t have much snow in my home state...
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...
TV cooking segments really appeal to me because everything is so quick. One moment Fast Freddy is chopping up a few onions and vegetables. Then in a flash he’s adding some secret sauce only available in a particular...
Of course we could grow our own vegetables. We had seen celebrity gardeners on TV do it. It looked so quick and easy when the whole process was shown in fast motion. One minute the celebrity gardener was turning the first spade...
“It began with postage stamps. I had a letter from a friend of mine who had gone out to South Africa. The letter had three cornered stamp on it, and I thought as soon as I looked at it, “That’s the thing! Stamp...
“…Billy, of course, is only one of thousands that have got this mania. And the autumn is the time when it rages at its worst. Every day there move northward trains, packed full of lawyers, bankers, and brokers...