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1.4KArticleFlying in the face of old age (16): One Wart Too Far
This episode is painful and I, Joan, am writing it at Buck’s request. Growing old isn’t always funny…in fact, there is much...
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839Coroner & Legal
More police powers? NO!
The ‘Silly Season’ of Christmas news or rather, Non-News, is upon us. You probably missed the ABC spot. It would have been...
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890Opinion
Fifth degree ‘the hardest, the worst and the best’
Buck and Joan out socialising … Don’t call Underwood man Buck Emberg elderly and expect a polite reply. But address him by...
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843Economy
‘Who’s on First? and What’s on Second?’
The original title was, ‘Who’s on First? and What’s on Second?’ I remember hearing the skit with my family as we sat...
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890Economy
We were just getting out of the hospital when …
We were just getting out of the hospital (Buck and Joan in the Wars) when … … Joan gasped, holding her hand...
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796Opinion
Kathy Stuff
Stuff is the stuff that clutters our lives. We live with stuff that was somehow not stuff before but held a certain...
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1.0KHistory
Flying in the face of old age: Buck and Joan in the Wars
Buck and Joan Emberg have had the horrifying expience of being sick on a 22 hour flight from Sydney to Duluth, Minnesota....
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862Opinion
Flying in the face of old age: The Inevitable Bike Accident
Chapter 15 The Inevitable Bike Accident Time, like an ever-flowing stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream,...
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861Opinion
Flying in the face of old age (13): It aint getting any better
Chapter 13 IT AIN’T GETTING ANY BETTER I can’t stand shivering on the bank. I plunge. Head first. Studdert Kennedy 1883-1929 Dear...
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772Opinion
Flying in the face of old age (12): I love you … you
Chapter 12 WHY? OH WHY? ARE WE DOING THIS INSANE BICYCLE TRIP? Oh, if I had the wings of an angel, Over...
