Still Life With Cat

In what parallel universe does it qualify as "news" that the Prime Minister and the Governor-General didn't go to church? C...

Long time no blog Cos I'm sick as a dog *cough* *snuffle* *moan* Normal services will be resumed eventually.

This is as close to rage meltdown as I think I've ever seen the Prime Minister come, which is to say not very, but you can see it churn...

Finished this week's copy with time to spare; lots of good ideas for the statue-of-Colonel-Light chapter of the Adelaide book that I...

Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Kon Karapanagiotidis, blogging at the Wheeler Centre (where you can read the whole thing), ma...

I've been trying intermittently to become an official organ donor for nigh on twenty years. Anyone who watched the 7.30 Report last nig...

Yes, it's Agony Corner. I haven't even been asked a question, I just feel like dispensing some good advice. I don't know what ...

The aircon service man came when he said he was going to, serviced the units without incident, said the whole system was in excellent shape,...

Listening to first Tony Windsor and then Rob Oakeshott deliver their verdicts in this afternoon's press conference was a really interest...

Waiting around to see who won the election has been edifying. Half the country must surely be better educated in the nature of the Westminst...

We're now into September (we're almost a week into September; gah) and that means that I'm getting up towards the pointy end of...

Lo these many years ago when I was writing my PhD thesis, I frequently voiced a wish that someone would invent a form of sentences and parag...

This is the First Freesia of 2010. Not only are freesias beautiful and strong -- they very rarely get chewed to bits by snails and bugs or...

I've just written an email to my very oldest friend saying 'I see from your daughter's Facebook page that you've hurt yourse...

... in three more sleeps.

Read this . Here's a taste. It is no small thing though, to be in water with such large creatures, face to face. For they are huge,...

This morning I was congratulating myself on having managed to save a bit of money over the last month or three. This afternoon I opened th...

Anyone following the entertaining shemozzle that Australian federal politics has recently become (usually it's a fairly boring shemozzle...

Dude knows his stuff, is why. I was directed to this magnificently clear and thorough explanation of the current and possible future Canb...