alternate universe

I’ve always thought I was pretty grounded, eyes open, very much a part of the real world. In the last 24 hours there have been a couple of things that make me suspect I’m living in an alternate universe.
If this is reality, I don’t want any part of it:

Posh spice has been named the world’s [...]

sex and booze

Imagine, if you will, a terrible epidemic that spreads through out the population each spring-time. It comes on in the late morning and early afternoon and by late afternoon there are tens of thousands of otherwise healthy people staggering about the streets, decorating the place with the contents of their stomachs and falling off their [...]

gettin’ caught in the rain

If you happened to have been somewhere in the Carlton vicinity in the last hour or so, you might have had a rare treat.
Yes, that increasingly sodden, drowned-rat-like figure dressed in a running shirt coloured that particular shade of fluoro known as “run for the kids green” was me.
I did take a detour via Lygon [...]

punctuation

There’s something about Bedford road in Ringwood East that offends my eye. Strangely, it’s neither the rail yards nor the high school and I’m pretty much indifferent to the local branch of Pizza Haven.
No, it’s one of the worst example of mangled punctuation I’ve seen in quite a long time:
Haughey,s butcher
That’s right, “Haughey,s butcher”. Who [...]

rain

A very rare experience this morning - a run in the rain. The rain!
It’s a funny thing, these days when we actually have rain, it’s all a bit of a surprise. You have to find the umbrella from way in the back of some cupboard or, in my case, the back of the shed. Either [...]