Down at Fisherman’s Catch I order the special seafood pack, flake, chips, scallops, a king prawn and several calamari rings. While I wait I watch a fascinating show taking place a ten minute mini entertainment as phone orders buzz in and the Chinese owners do their best in 3/4 English – is it Chinglish? Can’t [...]

Back of the foot, holding everything up, ready to go…..stretched like an archers bow, it flexes with each footfall, a pneumatic coil that springs us forward, helps us balance. cushions the blow of pounding running feet. Running, puffing hard, sheen of sweat breaking out , wiping my brow, waiting to get into the zone when [...]

Mr Perfect She’s been chasin’ Mr Perfect for almost all her life love’s come and gone been lost and won she’s ain’t nobodies wife her bio-bomb is tickin’, she’s almost had her run she knows she’d better find him soon or it’s over and done She’s always known precisely what he needs to be muscles [...]

White board butchers paper, Excel projections, ghosts on a white board or defective white wall, clicker pointing its way through, details start to fill the air, thousands of thought balloons float above everyone’s heads until they can’t see clearly any more – is there too much information? Just trying to impress, trying to influence the [...]

The argument had been following a long thin golden line, through paddocks of rebuttal and counterpoint until it had now arrived at a hayshed of impasse. It seemed all possible avenues had been exhausted and they were both sneezing at whatever dusty compromises were being offered by the other. Both had been pushed to their [...]

When I pull the car in to the rectangular space and the white lines border my car and I open the door, the first thing I smell is petrol. Just a whiff of it in the air colliding with the pollution from the river of vehicles flowing down the artery of Punt Road. Tires and [...]

Some people probably actually know how to make a bow tie from a strip of black cloth you know, but I don’t. I rely on the convenient modern version, that has a simple clip arrangement, but getting it on can be real fun. Unless I’m in front of a mirror it’s a game of hide [...]

Lips settle either side of a row of holes, leaches knitting with cold shining silver over a stamped and engraved name – ‘Honer Marine Brand’. A mouthful of air taken in through stale openings, stale with my own breath thankfully. Cheeks puff like balloons and I blow, moving the harmonica left and right, adjusting the [...]