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A Force for Good

If you are not a Star Wars fan, look away now. I’m sorry to say that I haven’t moved on from last month’s theme. It was, I fear, just the beginning. When I was in my classroom this week, I witnessed one of my Year 6 boys using a wastepaper basket as a helmet / face...

Cardigan capers

Clothes don’t maketh the man. Or, to PC this idiom and drag it into the twenty-first century, clothes don’t maketh the person. Or do they? I’ll let you be the judge … Have you ever been given an article of clothing that was delightfully chic and sophisticated, and...

Untimely death

I love a great quest. Given that I am a fantasy writer, this is probably not a surprise. But in real life, there are few quests that are cool adventures with dragons. In real life, some quests involve trawling through folder after folder of paperwork looking for one...

Health or hoax?

Going to the supermarket can be one of the most mundane chores a person endures. On rare occasions though, it really makes you stop and think. I had one such occasion recently when I was in a major supermarket and found a bottle of Liquid Chlorophyll Concentrate....

The places you will go

If you’ve never been to Tasmania, I recommend you go there. They have wombats. Of course Tasmania has many other drawcards, and I thoroughly enjoyed my holiday there earlier this year, but my sole KPI for the trip was seeing a live wombat in its natural habitat. And I...

News is dead

I mostly avoid news because the incessant sensational hysteria just winds me up, but there are times when I think I need to “tune in” to see what’s happening in my world. And that’s when the trouble starts. I have been procrastinating about this “newsworthy” post....