Full tank, bliss. Empty tank, despair. Empty your tanks and what have you got? Plenty of nothing, running on empty, sucking fumes. But with a full tank, you can do anything. As the Blues Brothers in their police...
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...
“Every reasonable businessman is willing to sit and wait half an hour for a shave which he could give himself in 3 minutes, because he knows that if he goes downtown without understanding exactly why Chicago lost two games...
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...
“Well,” says the doctor, “I want you to keep very quiet; you’ll have to go to bed and stay there and keep quiet.” In reality, of course, the doctor hasn’t the least idea what is wrong with the...
It was a simple heart-warming scene. A young mother was pushing her beloved toddler in a pram and arrived at the pedestrian crossing. Naturally, mum was talking on her phone as well. But the crossing required her to hit the...
No matter what temperature we set, our new budget oven either blackened our food or refused to cook it. As ovens go it was as useful as a rubber knife in a balloon popping competition. Like Toad of Toad Hall impersonating a...
Recently I read a news item describing the unexpected success of a community screaming session. The organiser was stunned by the hundreds of people who turned up to screech, scream and squeal in a public park. He sounded pleased...
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...
