Still Life With Cat

Well. Today I went to Hutt Street on a follow-up visit to the nice surgeon who removed my gall bladder and, while he was in there, (gulp) bi...

But look on the bright side, there's a cracker of a dystopian novel to be written about it .

Leonard Cohen's giving a concert at Hanging Rock? Is that wise?

Australia, what have you done?

but some of us are running breeding programs.

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

Because these days, apparently, you can get any old crap published. Any old offensive, outrageous, barking, evil crap at all. A taste, if ...

You just keep looking for your glasses until you find them. You finish the novel, and then you finish the next one. You go to the chemist an...

I spent an hour today with a dear friend drinking sparkling wine and bemoaning the state of our peer group -- almost all of whom including b...

Papa Cat got carted off to hospital yesterday after some sort of heart attackish thingy. Not very big, but there is some damage. Have spent...

The first three weeks of June are my least favourite time of year. It's officially winter, it's got seriously cold, and the days are...

Currently featured in the 'Say What?' spot at the Doonesbury site (see links in sidebar) on Slate: "Let's hope that the key...

It's a month since the World Health Organisation declared that the swine flu situation had reached Stage Five, the point at which the F...

Going out the back door late tonight to put some stuff away in the shed, I noticed that the pet patio spider into the remnants of whose web ...

A friend and regular reader of this blog emailed me a couple of hours ago about that last post to say that he'd looked up singulars and ...

As of a moment ago, I am no longer sure whether I still believe in democracy .