News flash: Haha replaces LOL

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…

Retirement can be a voluntary act

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…

Praying for political correctness

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…