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People and glass bottles

My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke dropped in at the new coffee house in Battery Point, where he heard people chortling about Leo...

Why am I not invited?

My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was having a short black at Retro in Salamanca Place, where he heard that HRH Mary will...

The Tigers’ bite

We can rest assured there will be cricket folk around Australia who will try to find something wrong with Tasmania’s win in...

Your Say (Archive 1)

Why do we eat what we eat?

You know how KFC have that yummy-yucky chicken salt that everyone else tries to imitate? And the chips are warm and kind...

The 19th century industrial revolution

We have become locked into a nineteenth century industrial revolution mentality in Tasmania that diverts people from education and training and focuses...

Droooool … kill me now!

I wasn’t being a pig. Really I wasn’t, honest. It’s just that the menu was so exciting AND they had a degustation...

Scenes of crime

I’m notorious for trying to drown my cousin in 1973. We were at Pipers River, she was five, I was three. As...

The Red Rocket

Clarry was a bloody cute kid. Ringlets, toothy grin, the whole shebang. His sisters thought he was a dork, but he didn’t...