A few years ago I went to a rodeo in a country town in New South Wales. I like rodeos, the carnival atmosphere, the celebration of our pioneering heritage, the opportunities for singles from far-flung rural outposts to meet and match up. My grandfather was a professional horse-breaker, a drover and a rodeo champion. It […]
Monthly Archives: July 2016
I was strolling through a shopping mall recently, when my eye was caught by by a young woman acting rather strangely. She walked out of a greengrocer with a single large apple, placed the apple on a handkerchief and applied hand-sanitiser liquid liberally all over it before biting into it. Twin pathologies seemed to me […]
Maybe it’s a form of narcissism that induces people, mostly younger and mostly female it seems, to carry on long, loud phone conversations in public places, such as in train carriages, walking down the street or in crowded cafes. It’s worse still if, as not uncommonly, the phone is set on speaker mode and we […]
The GFC (Gluten-Free Crisis) is not over! Every restaurant, cafe and school canteen feels compelled to offer gluten-free food choices. About 30% of Australians claim to be gluten intolerant, though the medically verifiable proportion is closer to 5%. Now also we’re beset by propaganda about the evils of sugar. Which sugar exactly? Sucrose? Glucose (an […]
life echoes 