It should be green but with the drought and all it’s mostly thirsty brown strips of ground anxious for whatever drip of moisture they can lick up. The ball may be resting on a small crevasse on the fairway where bulbous headed crickets scurry and whistle their backlegs to each other.  As you don’t have [...]

The itsy bitsy humpty dumpty little lamb does not rhyme, but those nursery tales do. Itsy and bitsy, humpty and dumpty, Little Jack Hormer sitting in the Corner. These characters meant something to someone at sometime.  When we were kids though it was just something simple to latch hold of and parade out.  Did I [...]

The hill slopes down to the bottom of the botanical where a white rectangle will soon come to life. The Tartan rug has a miscellany of delicacies spread all over, from musty tasting humus and pita breads, to legs and breasts of red roosters finest chicken. The rug is also adorned with the flutes of [...]

There’s so many words laid flat and bound in the holy book that the pages are like tissue paper, turning to the next page of neatly ordered words in parallel columns his words are illuminated in red, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth” etc etc. I hear the words in my [...]

So, it was as if I was standing at the front door watching a line of possessions move past me a on a conveyor belt to the moving truck. I was surprised the well muscled men did not beep every time they passed beneath the door jam or that they were not emptying stuff into [...]

Cutting paper, cutting cloth, snipping their way across a page or a dress pattern; a pair of scissors but why a pair? Is it the resemblance to a pair of Marylin Monroe or or Betty Grable legs walking across the page in shining beauty, in silvered abstraction? With those big Milliners scissors in my hand [...]

The order of service is presented as each person comes in, flowery writing announcing his name and the songs to be sung. The air is heavy with flowery perfume, daliahs and chrysanthemums and favorites from the garden. At the front of the small non religious chapel lies the coffin in shining polished wood, with a [...]

Loch Ness, Arthur and the knights, Babylon’s hanging gardens, Jack the Ripper. Facts or fiction? Somehow there must be a truth hidden in all myths or fables or they would not have been telegraphed down the wire of time. Some myths have been scientifically proven to be false, a whole program is devoted to it [...]

Time It’s my observation in our consumer driven world that the one thing we want can’t be bought and that’s time. Now when we were kids it seemed there was oceans of it it was all about filling in ‘time’ finding ways to alleviate the boredom games of cricket or football any sort of game [...]

Sliding doors As I’m gliding down Chapel Street on smooth layers of ashphalt past beggars looking vacant and two dollar shops looking vibrant past the factory seconds place where  a bloke is having trouble removing his security screen As I’m gliding each shop I pass that has  a door of sliding glass that opens beside [...]