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i82838
Apr 1, 20221 min read
The Greedy Ones
October 31, 2021 I was just on the phone to my 88-year-old mother in New Zealand. ‘Do you have Halloween lollies for children?’ I asked....
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Hot Chips
October 21, 2021 I was out with a friend, complaining about how I’d overeaten at lunch and was feeling uncomfortable. I told her that I’d...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Give, Give, Give
September 29, 2021 Today I baked a double batch of chocolate chip biscuits for a friend. It’s a New Zealand recipe that contains...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Small Beer
September 16, 2021 I’d not long returned from the local auction house when my friend Diana Facetimed me from London. We’re still in...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20222 min read
The Horsey Ride
August 31, 2021 I have been enjoying an email exchange with an old Japanese friend. We worked together at an advertising agency in Tokyo...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
The Potato Trick
August 30, 2021 There’s a trick to making potato pizza. The trick is to make much more dough and cook more potatoes than you need....
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Mulletfest
August 20, 2021 I stopped this young man on the street to suggest he enter the Mulletfest, an actual competition here in Australia....
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Roger the Conqueror
August 8, 2021 A friend of my brother’s recently told my mother about Ancestry dot com and how she’s discovered she’s a descendent of...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
A Hard Case
July 29, 2021 My mother’s neighbour’s house was broken into the day before yesterday. A woman was seen running out of the house after the...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
A Night at the Movies
July 2, 2021 It’s Friday night here in lockdown Sydney so I decided to go wild and watch a movie. I found one starring Jodie Foster and...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
From the Neck Down
June 28, 2021 My sister took my 88-year-old mother to the doctor today. We like her GP (he and Mum are on a first name basis). He’s a...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Amber Light
June 3, 2021 Today I was driving my mother from an appointment when the traffic lights up ahead turned amber. Marion was a zippy,...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Fingerprints
May 23, 2021 My mother just announced. ‘I’ll tell you something.’ My sister and I replied, what will you tell us? ‘What kind of people...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Call Your Grandmother
May 21, 2021 Years ago, my nephew Callum was suspended from high school for climbing onto the roof of a school building and putting...
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i82838
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Half a Cauliflower
May 7, 2021 When I called my 88-year-old mother yesterday she didn’t have time to talk. She’d just returned from shopping and coffee with...
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i82838
Mar 30, 20221 min read
I’m Not a Quitter
April 16, 2021 When you buy a twin packet of cream lamingtons and realise at first bite that they don’t live up to expectations — that...
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i82838
Mar 30, 20221 min read
Please and Thank you
February 17, 2021 This morning I was sitting in a hospital waiting room. There were only three seats, two near each other and a third...
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i82838
Mar 30, 20221 min read
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
February 13, 2021 I once almost saved someone’s life. We were celebrating at a restaurant after the launch of my first novel. I was...
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i82838
Mar 30, 20221 min read
Heavy Breathing
July 27, 2020 My sister loves playing tricks on people. When we were growing up, her victims were most often her siblings and since we...
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i82838
Oct 28, 20191 min read
The Tenant
October 25, 2019 It’s 33 degrees today and my kitchen is smelling pungent. There’s a possum in the closed off chimney of the old coal...
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