The old saying, "one swallow does not a summer make" is undoubtedly true. You'd think so, too, given that it can be traced back to Aristotle, pretty much the father of western thought. Or possibly another even earlier ancient sage. The point of the proverb is that a single instance of a phenomenon doesn't necessarily …
Well, with the holidays upon us and peace and goodwill reigning all around, it seemed a great opportunity to post up a short meditation on something meaningful. I did think about bashing out one of those deliberations on the true meaning of Christmas, but we were too busy eating and getting drunk to really focus …
Australia has an indisputably macho culture. Just look at the sports: Aussie Rules Football (AFL) or ‘aerial ping pong’ as Daniela calls it, looks like the most gruelling and skilfully-demanding pursuit ever contrived. The ball-handling skills are little short of astounding, the pace breakneck, the athleticism breathtaking. And speaking of ball-handling, the playing kit is …
When priapic songster Sting, in his pretentious post-Police lite-jazz phase, sang that love is the seventh wave, he was of course referencing the myth that in the sea, waves travel in groups of seven, with the seventh being the largest. This idea comes up quite a lot in our culture. Henri Charriere, otherwise known as …
OK I admit it -- yesterday's post was a cop-out. Just whacking a photo up there with a lame joke attached was worse than just phoning it in. Or maybe it was just phoning it in. Let's just say I was just really tuckered out from the killing frenzy the day before. Plus we had …
There’s a major flaw in this plan to embrace social distancing from Braidwood by blogging about living here – and that’s the fact that social distancing anywhere, no matter how picturesque, is still about avoiding other people. That means we’re not meeting the individuals that make the community what it is, so you get posts …
You know, all that hoarding of toilet paper that went on in the early stages of the COVID crisis was bizarre and reflected badly on our fellow human beings – but it’s not the most important thing about toilet paper. And no, I’m not referring to its most obvious usage, but rather what it exemplifies …
As I mentioned before, we’re really here in Braidwood because of COVID-19. It’s a lovely sunny Tuesday here – if a little windy – and it’s hard to imagine the outside world still locked in a struggle with the virus. Although we’re not really that isolated, the pandemic seems to be the preserve of news …
Going back a bit, I thought it may be useful to fill in why we've made the decision to move to Braidwood. Of course, in the background, COVID-19 is ultimately to blame: my work in Canberra came to an end. The 'deadly virus' wasn't mentioned and management had no complaints until revenues tanked and I …
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