Life’s Rich Pattern
Fanciful musings on things that really matter. My monthly column first published in Sydney community paper The Village Observer.
Tickets please
When booking a plane ticket, be careful you don’t end up on the wrong side of the world.
Mistaken Identity
It’s fun to make up names but even more fun to make anagrams of world leaders…
Inflation v Shrinkflation
What’s the best choice when face with four different price increase scenarios?
For the Record
Fancy getting your name in the Guinness Book of Records? It might be easier than you think…
Black Market Grey Area
Society’s need to rob graves for medical research has thankfully moved on
All in the mind
Keen to improve your memory skills? Fancy being the top pick for Trivia nights? Read On!
Check Yourself
You can either trust me to self-check, untrained, or put your own cashiers back to do their jobs… don’t audit me for a position you’ve stopped employing.
Innovate or Die
The microfibre duster with the telescopic pole, ideal for accessing those hard-to-reach places is good and all, but who can give me something I can wave across the bazillion knick knacks in my children’s rooms to eradicate the dust in one go?
All In the Stars
Road Rage has nothing on Feedback Rage, that boiling vipers’ pit of online rants, taken to a whole new level post Covid.
Not a Ro-Bot
Whatever you do, don’t try and engage a ChatBot in conversation. They’re simple creatures at heart and only have so many programmed responses.
It’s All Greek to Me
Driving on the other side of the road is hair-raising enough, but layer in a barrage of helmetless moped riders zipping in and out of every lane and it’s hard not to clutch your seat belt to your chest.
Skeleton Crew
The winter Olympics have ended, leaving us with that vague sense we too could take up bobsleighing, if only we could sprint, had quad muscles the size of rocket launchers and lived in a cold climate.