Brief Encounters

Last week I went to yoga.  On entering the studio, I held the door open for a woman of circa 80 years old.  On finishing the session, she told me how much she was impressed by my Tree Pose.  I was about to say how I was impressed with her Downward Dog but to avoid...

Flaneur

Saturday was a big day.  Over in Sydney to see the British and Irish Lions play the Waratahs.  First off, I was taken by my younger daughter to Baker Bleu, the local bakery frequented by the Double Bay fashionistas.  All activewear and handbag dogs with bulbous eyes...

Jesus wants me for a sunbeam

It is that time in the cycle again.  Every two years the government sends me a bowel cancer testing kit with which I am meant to return a faecal sample.  The problem is I have lost the test kit and the return envelope.  Undeterred I have laid a deposit in a normal...

Nonagenarians behaving badly

Last weekend was long and very social.  Firstly, Friday lunch at the Corner Bistro for snails, duck, good company and a bit too much wine.  On Saturday we attended a small 60th birthday lunch for c.150.  I knew how this lunch would go when a certain Mr. M on my table...

Mad March

So mad March in Adelaide is over and we can all get on with our lives.  However, it has been good to get out and see so many people given the potential source material. First off the rank in Mad March was Writers’ Week. I attended one talk on how the petro-chemical...

Un Menage

So the big move has occurred and we have left our house of twenty-four years.  Luckily, we have only had to move across the back lane to rent a friend’s house until the new-build is ready.  The only issue is that the friend is still in the house and she is female,...