Tag? Something like this: “I am not amused.”

A while ago I asked what non-Australian people wanted to know about us. Then I got to wondering - how much do I know? I mean, I haven’t been many places. I shaded a map to see just how far travelled I am, and I was shocked at the result:

On square mileage, I reckon I’ve […]

Keira has taken to ’setting up shop’ in our walk-in-wardrobe. Her wares are exclusively our shoes, and it could be any part of the day when I walk by our bedroom to hear her muffled cries within of, “Shoes for sale! Come and try my shoes!”
So I oblige, and walk in to see her […]

You think terrorism, strapping explosives to the chest and walking into a public area is a modern phenomenon? Joseph Conrad was writing about it 100 years ago.
Published in 1907, at what most critics consider the early part of the modernist era, the book does admittedly contain pessimistic, almost apocalyptic, critiques of society. It is also […]