Sorry. I'm sorry Mum I never told you about dad's truths omission. Yes, when I was taking the train daily with him back from uni, one day he'd not expected I had caught his train. I boarded at the last minute and slowly made my way to his usual carriage. There he was sitting next to a woman as fixated on previous decades as him, sitting closer to her that I'd ever seen my parents sit. And holding the hand of a woman I didn't know. It's probably why you questioned or verba

Snow Snow slush Snow slush plus coffee Cold coffee Mit milch und sucre It’s winter in the lands of the midnight sun and it is what we drink after a robust cross-country ski to the outdoor sauna – in the dark… The coffee hardens us for the plunge. Toby would dunk himself in the Bondi Ice Bergs annual ice float, ‘just to keep his toes’ in he said. But, truly, his spirit missed the Northern Lights and those never-ending days. He claimed it gave him back all the hours he’d slep

Species merging was generating problems among the parents. ‘Icthy’ (the fishy-folk) were gene sharing with the previously lower consciousness group ‘Dollface’. The fish couldn’t resist those cute baby blues, the ageless physiology, and the absence of self-determination among the females. Fishy females were having tricks employed by the clown fish and bees. Namely, gender reversal. Female were becoming male fish! Not due to rising water temperatures but precisely because the

(Bunch Lunch Munch) Change just one letter and the concept mutates If two letters are altered Bunch > Lunch > Lungh Lunph > lench Lanch Linch Lunch > Munch > Munch Munce Mundh Monch Manch Mench But When three letters change, oddly the words can remain Bunch > Lunch > Lench > Lengh can remain parallel. Or, was this list just an odd fluke? A ‘bunch’ of bananas and the ‘length’ of a bunch growing down off a banana tree? Try a second example? OK Lunch > Linch > Punch

The story of atlases is as jagged as the coast of Norway. Early maps were incredibly incorrect, laced with enticing lies such as: "gold is buried at The X 3 paces from the oak tree". Not being drawn to scale but it made no difference! There was gold fever in the Old World and every country wanted to make a claim - if not in gold, in lands, slaves and trade. What was it like to voyage beyond the horizon? For rum and bread you could be on a boat swabbing the decks, shimmying

Right. I’m warning you in advance. This is not a happy topic. My mum is dead. When she died my daughter was visiting from Australia for Xmas and Elle (my kid) and I had gone to the UK and were staying at my friend’s apartment for free. Worst snow storms that year. It was unclear if we’d get to fly out, but even more critical, could her plane land in Portland? I went to the airport to pick her up. Planes were not landing. There wasn’t a stockpile of de-icer in flights from

The path of least resistance. It’s the topic of argument: water pollution, water right, water ways. It’s the micro-molecule H2O, just three atoms but merely two elements. Organic chemists spend two weeks understanding its unusual qualities. · Frozen it floats · Liquid water compact in space due to weak Van Der Waal’s chemical bonds How does it work? Does water form ions of OH that are bonded to another H2O atoms OR the H atoms interact with each other on t

‘Open them Close them Put them away!’ Widely applicable? A riddle? A drawer ? Them what? Clothes? Eyes ? (-> peepers) Where can you put your eyes away? Oh, maybe contacts? Doors of life? Put those unattainable dreams of life tucked safely away? Window ? Can’t put away a window! Presents , right? Open then works, but? Close them? Nope – blows up. Who was the ‘stream of consciousness’ thing author? That Irish bloke…What’s his name? Escaped! A closed mind. Sinclair? No I

Racing across the expansive skies, was it sound or light that reached us first? The 'jagged white' hit our old red river gum right at the hollow where the elders had taken a coolamon from the younger tree's yielding bark. We used that tray on our wedding for berries and so, too, have all our offspring on their weddings, one by one. So frequently has it been oiled and cleaned and cherished that our care has imparted a soft, shiny tinge to its redness. Now the old tree is sh

Who’s a lemon? I’m a lemon. Oh. Oh. Yeah, of course you are I can see that! But, you’re not green. You sure you’re not a lime? No. I tell you I’m a lemon. Just give me some sun—I’ll be yellow yet. Sure. That’s what they all say! And you should talk. You’re not yellow either. What colour do you call that ? I’m beyond purple, it’s called ultra violet. Pounce! The next thing you’ll say it that you’re a berry. But I am! I’m a Blue berry. Right! Aren’t Blueberries supposed to be

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