\”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
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
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
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
