Oh dear, I seem to be behind the times again. Facebook tells me that HaHa has replaced LOL as its most popular phrase. And here am I having just found out what LOL means. Like many of my vintage, I was under the impression it meant Lots of Love. Now I know it means Lots…
IT’S A MARKETING ploy as old as Moses and his Ten Commandments. You can’t possibly stay healthy / stay fit / enjoy yourself / progress your career / do anything at all without doing these 100 / 50 / 25 / 10 things which somebody else has determined are must do’s for you. The Top…
AS A RESIDENT of Perth in Western Australia, it seems I am living in one of the top ten cities in the world. A new global travel magazine, The Escapist, from the London-based Monocle group, hails the scenic beauty of parts of Perth as rivalling the Amalfi coast of Italy. The magazine ranks Perth 8th…
LIKE MANY Baby Boomers and pre-Boomers I grew up learning the order of our planets with a little ditty: Mum’s Very Edible Marmalade Jam Sits Nicely Upon Plates. Of course, that was back in the days when there were nine planets, before the star scientists decided to downgrade poor little Pluto. That’s why I’m glad…
YOU’RE waiting and watching at the baggage carousel. And waiting. And watching. Until finally there are no bags going round and the carousel stops. That’s when you accept what has become increasingly obvious – you’ve arrived but your luggage hasn’t. Our two bags went missing on a flight with Vueling from Dubrovnik to Barcelona (via…
I KNEW I had finally retired, really retired, when I took my suits and ties to the Salvation Army. By then, I had had three or four tries at retirement. It didn’t come easily. I missed work. I missed the routine of getting up and dressing up to go to work, to socialise, to talk…
THEY’RE at it again, the political correctness brigade who want to change history and tradition on the spurious basis of so-called gender based language. Our politicians in the upper house of the West Australian parliament have spent two years considering the merits of a daily prayer which states that God ordained “man should live as…
THE health warning recently attached to wearing skinny jeans sent me scurrying to my wardrobe to check for any such hazardous apparel. After all, I am a contemporary of Mick Jagger and he seems to have been wearing skinny jeans for ever. It turns out I do have some trousers I can no longer get…
THE trouble with visiting the world’s great tourist attractions these days is that too many other people are doing the same thing. Take our visit to Florence, for instance, where one of the must-do attractions is Michelangelo’s statue of David in the Galleria dell’Accademia. Italy ranks fifth in the tourist countries of the world, with…
WHAT is it about West Australian drivers that they crash into houses at the rate of about two a week? It’s not as if they are driving through an English village where the houses front straight onto the road. These are suburban homes with a front garden in residential streets where the speed limit is…
Booming Marvellous 