“The player in distinctive costume at the front of the (street) car controls a crank, by means of which he is able to bring the car to a sudden stop or cause it to plunge violently forward. His aim in so doing is to cause all...
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As soon as I walked into my local electronics store, I started to feel something was very wrong. As I browsed the aisles of gadgets I overheard a salesman saying “Male subject, purple New Zealand t-shirt, arriving one minute...
She looks normal, sort of, but every now and then I notice something peculiar. She is a news presenter on a national TV network in Australia. She speaks very fluently with a slight mid-Atlantic or possibly mid-Galaxy accent, is...
“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...
Eureka moments, sudden realisations that change you forever, revelations of great truths. They are all epiphanies. I had a self epiphany at my first school cricket match. When I walked in to bat, the opposing team as a man moved...
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...
Now that I have hijacked your attention with a totally false claim, here are the top 10 things about the complexit-teas and inconsequentialit-teas of tea. Tea bags are made from dust. That’s right your old reliable...
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...
Of course I am special. I know all the words to the nonsense rhyme “One fine day in the middle of the night”, I once made an Olympic torch out of cardboard and coloured streamers and I’m the only person sitting...