Bon mots

To be or …

Still can\’t quite get a grip on what I am doing with \”Nom de  Plume\”. Working from what it is not: Not political commentary Not ecological/environmental analysis Not autobiography – past or current Not long essays In other words, a complete break with what I was doing on the internet previously. So, doesn\’t leave much! […]

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Every day

Every day in Summer I wonder if this is the day a bushfire will destroy us. I check the \”fires near me\” app half-hourly, check news bulletins hourly. Especially on catastrophic fire danger days. And then it gets to late afternoon and I think \”survived another day\”. Got to 3.30pm today, almost ready to say

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Good fences

You can\’t garden in the country unless you can keep snakes out. That means wrapping all the fences and gates in snake wire, blocking off every cranny and nook. And it works, angry snakes patrolling outside the fence, spitting angrily. Unless. Ah, unless a snake gets in through a gate left open accidentally as a

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Skipping

The problem with renting DVDs from a mail order company is that they all come with damage. The damage – scratches, dirt, scrapes, bangs, magnetic – is often deliberate. It causes the film to \”skip\” so that you miss several minutes of the story, rejoining it at a later spot, trying to work out where

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