Will Type For Food

Being an old sort of codger now, I've been going to the Dan O'Connell Saturday pub poetry sessions for well nigh on 10 years. It...

Okay, so you're in the audience and sitting down to watch the third scene of Richard Wagner's cool and exciting new opera, Die Walk...

Sorry I'm late, I was busy teaching yoga to my goat. I was crocheting individualised bonnets for my bees' feet. This winter has be...

German cliche poem  Sehnsucht for Schadenfreude!  My Weltschmerz smarts today. Perhaps it's just the Zeitgeist,  But my Traum...

So, there's football, football, football and football*. And when you talk about football, people have got to ask, do you mean football...

'Lautgedicht' is German for 'Sound Poem' (it could also mean 'loud poem' though), in news which may or may not expla...

An election confection Labor or Liberal Laberal lubber Babble on blabber all Blobbable blubber Loobyloo lubbardly Dullard tod...

Today is Hedgehog Awareness Week , which is a strange span of time for a day, but there you go. Did you know that there is a designated hedg...

Having just avoided participating in the Dirty Thirty Poetry Month in April (thirty days, thirty writing prompts, one per day) - it's be...

AUSTRALIA, Australia - an artistic crisis has swept the nation, as artists have finally run out of silos to paint on . "Without any m...

HANDSHAKES could be banned under new workplace rules to avoid expensive sexual harassment claims, an expert has said. - The Sun SCENE: Th...

A Defence of Good, Old-Fashioned Food  Patch (dog & food critic) by renowned food critic Patch. Australia has had nothing less...

Orchestral music should never be played in the afternoon. Romantic piano concertos are particularly depressing at that time. Chamber music...

Dad noticed one of those silly "This door is alarmed" signs the other day and suggests in his letter "This.... could be a sub...

Saw a meme the other day saying there sometimes weren't enough swear words to express how you really felt. Well, I thought, that's e...

(Incredibly timely humour from me, as you can see...) Hello, and welcome to another episode of A Contentious Issue Discussed by Two Apathe...

Isn't it just awful how Christmas become so commercialised? On an unrelated note, my book would make a great Christmas present for every...

1) ARE WE JUST GOING TO STAND BY AND TAKE IT? a) Yes. b) No. c) Maybe. d) All of the above. 2) Am I right or am I right? a) You are ri...

1. To a slow tantalising melody the stripper sensuously and lingeringly puts clothes on. She teasingly pulls on a cosy jumper. Then she play...

Cadburys changed their chocolate Roses. Did you know that? "They've changed chocolate Roses!" the Baron announced to me yeste...