The sun had now dipped down far enough that it was casting long shadows across the asphalt of the schoolyard. The minister of the local church was standing in front of a tented temporary stage rolling around a barrel as fat as a capybara while giving a running commentary on a handheld microphone. His black [...]

Cork grows on trees, did you know that? I certainly didn’t, but while on a week long stay in the tiny port of Carviero Portugal I discovered this fact. At 6.30 am I was picked up by a slightly dillapidated land rover, just outside my hotel. I climbed in to a smell of slightly leaking [...]

There’s a knowing, a sense that reality is shimmering like you’re watching it through the vale of a crystal clear waterfall, looking on slightly disembodied, weightless, floating above the action while being in the action. “I’ve done this before”,or “I know what’s going to happen next”. Perhaps it did, perhaps it has. It’s more about [...]

Overweight clouds gather together toward the end of the day – all the accumulated humidity seems to be getting compressed and crunched and punched into a row of them. These big muscly clouds look as if they have been sorely bruised and are pretty angry and ready to shout. They do. A roar, an explosion, [...]

She sits on a wall on a corner near a block of flats, dress cut way above the knee, short sleeve shirt two sizes too small showing her assets. The punters drive by sizing her and all the other prospects up, but how many would think that she is a he? Or used to be. [...]

Does a single day go by without at least one look up on the megalith of Google? This magnet for questions of the web world remains stable, with occasional banner changes to pique our interest, but 99.9% of the time you’re just there for that little rectangle that will provide you with the answers-NOW – [...]

The oven door yawns open and a pale yellow light reveals a tray – sizzling and spitting away. The heat from the oven wells up like a 42 degree Melbourne summer scorcher-that dry sort of heat from the North – no humidity. My hands are draped in thick oven mittens that insulate my delicate skin [...]

A repository of discarded thoughts and ideas. An inverted volcano wanting to spew forth a lava of rejection. Paper fish swimming in a tank of air. Classic scenes of the frustrated writer, the pen scribbling on the pad, ripped from the bindings, paper cutting into his palm as he compresses and fragments and rejects another [...]

Tuning in on the old Rambler radio, the big dial surfs across waves of static, occasional bursts of foreign language caught in short wave swirl that licks the sound as if it were a lollipop, the sound going all curly whirly. The scanner comes across a series of dots and dashes caught in a wah [...]

Flipper on the TV, black and white from memory – or in memory. Rising out of the water on his tail and dancing – Flipper talk – ee-ow ee-ow ee ee ee ee ee…. was that really what he was saying, or was it dubbed in later on? How did a dolphin in a pool [...]