The policy number reads in a string of gibberish Greek on the right hand side. It comes with an accompanying booklet that has consumed a small forest on the outside of town. I am never going to read all that stuff, but they insist on sending it along in case I choose to sue I [...]

Bargain collectors corner, the owner is standing outside making a chimney of himself before the real trade starts to come through. There’s all manner of goods stacked on the footpath, those big clear plastic stacking boxes, kids hand-held windmills, clothing apparel all bundled out on the footpath. Inside, the shop is stacked from floor to [...]

It had to be a well planned operation, somehow he had to get back in the side window without making too much noise. He definitely did not want his parents hearing him, because as far as they were concerned he would be asleep in there already. Somewhere between the news and the next round of [...]

The only time we used to use a table cloth was either at Christmas or when the family came to visit for a special weekend. Normally it was Sunday lunch off a medium blue lump of laminate that dad installed on all the tables in our cafe/take away/Deli. On the special occasions the shop would [...]

Nothing like the smell of a freshly baked photocopy. That mad mix of printing chemicals that have been sucked out of the toner, that thing that inevitably goes wrong, or so you think. There’s a medical procedure you need to go through to fix it- just as soon as that little red roller signal starts [...]

Sometimes they just shouldn’t bother you know! Sequels that is, they just never measure up to the ‘blockbusterness’ of the original – though I did read that the latest ‘Angels and Demons’ – the sequel to the Da Vinci code – is pretty good go figure. There’s that whole procedure you go through at the [...]

Down Torquay way, there’s a B & B we stayed at one time, an unusual arrangement with the place being like an additional room added to the top of the building – entry was through a security mesh door that clattered shut and a normal wooden door, but then there was a passageway that led [...]

The recipe calls for the chicken to be daubed with a mixture of tarragon butter – so I’m going to have to make it. Of course I’ve done some forward planning and have a chicken, some butter and some tarragon – not that easy to find down at the supermarket – got to look real [...]

He stood nervously at the party clutching a drink as a safety buoy. It regularly visited his lips as he began to eclipse his fears with layers of alcohol. His attention had been drawn to a blonde with a short bob of hair on the other side of the room, yes if there was someone [...]

After the shower has ceased a punishing round of heated droplets and the towel has rubbed me down like sandpaper. After I have stepped on the scales and witnessed the dial spin closer to my target weight and I step off and it springs back with a noisy reset mechanism. Yes after all that sometimes [...]