Well, I finally done it. I bought myself a pair of E.B’s (embarrassment boots). Boots that would have you drawn and quartered by the fashion police if you dared step foot outside your front door wearing them. I had to buy them. My feet were getting cold, up here in the hills, and I needed […]
Next Train WAH – Platform WAH – Leaving WAH
Remember the bad old days when a voice on the PA system at a train station would puncture your eardrums with this announcement. ‘The next train WAH on platform WAH will be leaving WAH.’ You’d stand there like the rest of the ‘stunned mullets’ on the platform trying to make sense of the announcement. Well, […]
Stable Manure
I was driving along the Maroondah Highway heading out towards Healesville and spotted a wooden sign, nailed high up on a tree. It read ‘Stable Manure.’ My first thoughts were ‘stable manure? As opposed to unstable manure? How dangerous or explosive is this manure?’ Sometimes signs can mean something different from what was intended. And […]
In Search of Shoosh
Perhaps the hardest thing to find when I go for a coffee is shoosh. Now shoosh is not on the menu but I’m willing to pay any amount to get it. What is shoosh? Shoosh is quietness. It’s what I was told as a kid when I was loud and boisterious. “Chris, shoosh!” “A bit […]
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