The clacker on the front door echoes along the hall and up to the bedroom. Immediate thought is – “what are they selling”. Who knocks on the door at midday anyway? Expecting Jehova’s Witnesses or something similar I am surprised by a man in Fedex Outfit. A white rectangular package in one hand and a [...]

Lawn mower man – stuck inside a main frame room ‘access denied’ ‘access denied’ trying to escape down a telephone line somewhere to continue his mayhem. Russell Crowe ‘virtuosity’, a self made man in his own image, virtual. Sci fi novels, too many of them with crumbly yellowing pages read as the digits tick past [...]

BANOOL words sitting in three Dimensional abomination out of a perfectly smooth surface of the manicured hedge. BANOOL I never did find what it meant, but every inch of that hedge was clipped so the word just hung in space in the same way you can get into a word on your PC and ‘add [...]

It was on the last day it really became apparent. At the top of the valley with a 1500 foot descent the insides of my feet were so painful it was as if there were thumb tacks pinned to the insides of my shoes, or a bed of nails that someone put there just for [...]

Monday Morning sometime 1974, Springvale Primary school, hundreds of youngsters standing on a sea of black asphalt, standing on the cracks, standing on the lines that define the basketball court, looking toward the headmaster speaking about something or other. Alraedy the day is hot , the sky is an unbroken blue diamond – unbreakable, it [...]

Flat, dead flat, an ECG dead flat line of green at eye level. It goes on forever, steamrollered, manicured, pruned and teased, just the faintest hint of a few lines at the other end. The ball is medium, heavy, a small cannonball ready to launch out of my arm, and like a cannonball it too [...]

Butter sizzling in the pan as if its a pool of lava, yellow bubbles emanating from the non stick grey tongue that laps heat from the orange electric element. Swirl it round and round, a good coating. A piece of bread soft and spongy sawn from the knobbly loaf as if it were a ham. [...]

Used to be it would come in a small orange envelope – on a Thursday. I’d flip that flap on the way home on the tram as it ground it’s way through the streets on square wheels – The Number five to Wattletree Road In W class splendour its sides painted green, the pantilever reaching [...]

Oh lord, look up at this mountain I have to climb, it seems so high and so far away, grant me the strength to overcome all obstacles that I see. I never really got them in high school and as a late age Uni student I was quivering in my boots about the first one [...]

Did you or your mother ever have those catalogues, the ones with the shiny armor plated pages with people slung about on pieces of furniture or standing near elaborate draperies. It was the ‘home shopping network’ of its day. Well in our shop we had the authorised traveling salesman who’d come and deliver stuff courtesy [...]