“I’m sorry, I’m going to have to leave and go back to my room for a brief nap”, I said to a colleague at about 3 o’clock on Monday afternoon.
I’d reached that point of tiredness when my head had started to nod uncontrollably.… Read the rest
“People share far too much information in public, these days”, I thought to myself tonight, as I sat and waited for the flight to Darwin.
To my immediate right, there was a bloke having a deeply personal conversation.… Read the rest
“When was the last time you had a blood-pressure check?”, the optometrist asked me after he looked into my eyes with the torch.
“Why, is there something to worry about?”, I asked him.… Read the rest
“I don’t remember us wearing our pants THAT high in the 80s”, I said to my friends as the “glass boy” walked past us at the Bob Hawke Beer & Leisure Centre (aka the Bob Hawke Brewery at Marrickville). … Read the rest