My mother’s new house in the green flecked paddocks of Berry has an orchard. At my sister’s place, down a thin rough road baby chickens have just hatched. It’s spring in their fields. On the other side of the world the leaves on my stoop have turned. It’s amber and gold underfoot and the air […]
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Antidotes to inexplicable grumpiness: Inexplicable grumpiness def: a slight emotional fizzing and hissing; when things just grate. Often the sky seems tilted and objects in your path take on a pale orange sheen of reflected fury. Exacerbated by the sound of sniffing, garbage trucks and the smell of salt cod from the neighbours. It may […]
There’s a fine line between content and smug. These crisp and squished tomato bread nests may be the tipping point. It started with a late Friday afternoon excursion to Borough markets. The sun was out. At the junction there were crowds spilling out onto the curb, sipping sneaky pints and getting a jump start on […]
When I was no taller than a fire hydrant, I wrote a list of ‘things I’ll like when I’m a grown up’. It was written in a pink diary in the same rotund penmanship that scrawled a letter to ‘Young Talent Time’, offering my services if Dannii Minogue had a cold. It housed things that […]
Sometimes you need an incentive to think outside the box and move beyond the obvious. I’m the sort of person who’s always better motivated with a carrot than a stick. (The orange post it notes flapping on the perimeter of my lap top are testament to that. Recent example; Australian or UK residents for tax […]