Two catastrophic fire danger days in a row is one too many (well, two to many really…). You can psych yourself up for one, ticking off the hours, wearing out the Fires Near Me App, reaching 6pm with a big sigh of relief, but having it all to do the next day (today) again is […]
Catch-22 was the greatest catch of all. You could escape the war any time you wanted to, all you had to do was tell your commanding officer you were crazy and wanted to go home and you would be sent home. Except for one tiny problem – wanting to be sent home was the only
Have only recently come to understand the difference between being anxious and suffering from anxiety. Being anxious is being rationally worried about something for a fixed period of time. On a day of high temperatures and strong winds I am anxious about bush fires. When the weather changes to a cool wet day I stop
\”My wounds from World War II have healed as time has passed but I can still feel the scars on my body and the injuries that remain implanted in my soul. And every time I am shown or read about some disturbing event or other in today\’s world, the awful images from those terrible experiences
One of my (many) side effects from chemotherapy is an inability to deal with extreme temperatures. When I get cold by accident I am chilled to the bone and it takes a long time for me to warm up – wrapped in blankets. It is not just a matter of feeling cold, but feeling cold
Two young magpies chasing grasshoppers on grass this morning. Seeing grasshopper on ground, lunge, grasshopper jumps, chase, grasshopper jumps, try to predict which way, lunge to spot, grasshopper has been unpredictable, gone sideways, try to catch in flight, too fast. Millions of years of evolution gone into perfecting this dance of death, the grasshopper to
Used to know a chap who worked on snakes (a technical officer in a zoology department). When he began he used to boast how he wasn\’t concerned about big venomous snakes, had been bitten a few times, no problem, we were all wusses to be scared of browns, tigers, blacks, taipans, adders. But after he
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
