Not my kind
What kind of person would, deliberately, step on an ant?
Bon mots
Quote unquote
I used to quote the words of wise people all the time. But now? Bugger it, let them quote me.
Crook sign
The town of Crookwell has a sign at the entrance saying \”1820s pastoral settlement\”. Should say \”1820s land theft\”.
Sail away
In days of old, sailing ship captains, of necessity, carefully planned their voyages. Using a compass, and a pair of dividers (set the distance apart a ship could cover in a day), they drew a zigzag line aiming to avoid hazards like reefs, sunken ships, zones with no wind, onshore currents, and take advantage of
Containing multitudes
A nice pensee from Virginia Woolf, recently come across – \”A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as one thousand\”.
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Steptoe Towers
Rewatching remastered Fawlty Towers and it was suddenly clear – Fawlty Towers is Steptoe and Son. Yes, ok, moved from a junkyard in London to a hotel in Torquay, but otherwise the same. Oh, and both tragedies of course, not comedies. How did I not see this 40 years ago?