I can only think of the one we bought for dad’s birthday a few years ago- it was like a big series of lapping tongues of fabric waiting to slobber all over you like an excited dog, your bum hit those padded cushions and then it seemed to balloon all round you, engulf you in [...]

How to make an aviator sandwhich: Take a couple of wings of faith give them a nice spread of adventure and then add condiments – excitement, Fear, Panic and Hope. Press down firmly and ignite some very large motors of belief . Get them humming away on the ground sending backdrafts of crazy wind making [...]

It’s a comfortable jumper we might put on, a suit of armour we might don without really thinking about it too much. Blinkers on our eyes, the filters of childhood, the filters of experience, imprinting each subsequent experience with the same shade. Minds fixed and unmoving like concrete dividing barriers on a freeway – do [...]

How the hell do you do this? I had received a snippet of instruction on this gear shifting business and now here I sit straddled over 250 cc of burbling motor. The roar of the beast controlled by my right hand, the gears by the other and somewhere in all this I’ve got to brake [...]

She had gone off into the wilderness, a cabin by a quiet lake, a log fire and a library of books. She was seeking wisdom, trying to distill it all down into something she could practically use to live a good life, but all she was coming up with were question marks. Just when she [...]

The two stroke  is gargling its way across the lawn when it coughs and hiccups and then splutters to a  stop The lid -which looks like a sea shell – is screwed off and an eye looks into a hollow cave of muted metal – empty- nada- nothing. Petrol vapours ring chimes in the orchestra [...]

On the edge of something, just about acceptable – weighing and balancing, pros and cons, black and white decisions but borderline is mostly grey, floating just in front of consciousness not easily grasped. Grandfather clock pendulum of judgement ticking back and forth in the mind, go or not go, make it or not? All so [...]

The passengers were all squashed in, holding their baggish condiments on loose arms or  propping them up on tired knees. They all seemed to wear a different paste on their foreheads. complexions that tasted of the day’s events. The snappily dressed finance sector employee had had a good day on the markets so he was [...]

The sound of the party was spilling into the street, the fireworks , arcing up over the city like agitated cat tails were long gone, the smell of  the their exploding mortars hanging in the memories of onlookers, but back in the ‘burbs’ the party was still continuing. One A.M. now. It was an ‘invite [...]

They were all living under his Brussell sprout regime, the one where they were forced to eat Brussel sprouts day after day – even though they hated the wretching taste of the things, had done since childhood. If they didn’t they knew they would be put in some slimey prison somewhere with a bunch of [...]