Still Life With Cat

'Waiter, can we have another bottle of Pinot Grigio? Things have taken a turn for the worse here.' -- Maeve Binchy

And as if the subject of the previous post were not enough gobsmackery from the headlines for one day, here's another: Rolf Harris telli...

Check it out. As they sometimes say over at Hoyden About Town : I have no words. Actually I do have a few words. The hilarious line being ta...

Here's a little something for the foam-flecked anti-post-modernist brigade.

There's a lively discussion going on at Larvatus Prodeo about the term 'postmodernism', which in spite of its derailment in var...

When I was seventeen it seemed that most Australian adults were smokers, or at least most of the ones I knew. Both of my parents smoked and ...

You are welcome to anything in the pile. If I wanted it, it would still be in the house or shed, not out on the nature strip. HOWEVER. If I ...

To lose one pair of prescription sunglasses, Ms Cat, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

They say if the task in front of you looks too big to tackle then you should break it down into smaller components and then do them in an or...

Read all about it (and check out the fantastic photo) here . That should keep the right-wing bloggers and the Oz's op edders happily Lou...

When British then-schoolboy Adrian Mole first saw the light of day he was fourteen thirteen and three-quarters. Over the years his creator ...

During the lead story on tonight's 7.30 Report about the extensive recent storm damage in south-east Queensland and the high likelihood...

Caught by surprise tonight, when without warning the opening chords of 'Shelter From the Storm' came on the teeve as part of the dra...

Life as a word nerd has some remarkable moments, as when, emerging from the fog of anaesthetic some years back after the same operation from...

Whatever your plans for this evening may be, see if you can fit them around watching this program on SBS. As Philip Adams remarked last nig...

Many happies to the friend, regular reader of this blog and fellow Chinese Water Snake whose birthday it is. You know who you are. If it ha...

And today we have two: 1) "Fraudster" Where did this bit of nonsense excess come from? It looks like tongue-in-cheek vaudeville Y...

Never mind all this insert Tab F in Slot G and glue at Point H and where are the batteries and have you got the sticky tape, this is what Ch...