Peachy Compliments
Near my home there is a road called Peachgrove avenue. Driving along it I was sad to notice the lack of peach trees. There are lots of...
Creamy serendipity
It was the week before Christmas and shops were packed to the gunnels and yet, there I was, shopping cart at the ready and standing in a...
Educating Yuletide
As a young boy, my father lived in a town called Noupoort in the Cape Province of South Africa. His father was a cockney lad from London...
Fizzing woke woman
Donna Ashworth said something along these lines: "Don't go chasing an ideal of a woman you will never be ... start embracing she who is...
Mudlarking elver and bubbling mud
I have decided that in another life, I want to be a mudlark. Yup. Digging in the tidal mud on the Thames river searching for odds and...
Graduating golfers and Irish jiggers
A few days ago the local TV station had a discussion on strange foods that people enjoy, specifically foods that don't normally go...
Sailing away from pea green boats
I am spending money like a drunken sailor. Or is that offensive to sailors? No idea, but it's what my father used to say. And it is...
Murderous fairies
I have no idea if my parents or grandmother read us stories about fairies. And I have no idea why they inhabited my life as a little...
Memorable moments
What do the medical people put into these antiviral tablets? Bitter aloe? with a touch of really bitter aloe? I cannot get the taste out...
Some days are diamonds, some days are hot black stones
It is cold and wet here in New Zealand and I am craving a warm swim in a temperate pool, or even a bubbing hot pool would be good....
