We are four out of twenty-three million*, called down to the sports oval by a dancing wind, the open sky and a slow-baked April sun. Degrees are just numbers though, as are population statistics, I thought, as we tossed the basketball to each other. Playing schoolyard games, diving for a catch – this is how…
We escaped last week, before Easter. Just for a night, down to the Bellarine Peninsula. Played for half a day at the Adventure Park, before the storms came over, and we abandoned the cold water for even colder winds, running for the car. I insisted on escaping, because I needed to, and the cat can…
Hormone Headaches Are Bullshit [Subject has just awoken, eyes barely open. She rolls over onto her right side and tries to catch a few more moments rest. But it’s time to get up. What follows is an internal dialogue.] Ugh, head still hurts. Coffee. Coffee will fix it. Yes, but what strength will I make…
Did Valentines Day Feel Like Metal Prongs Being Pulled Out Of Your Body? Then Riley Can Relate. I’ve waited a week to write about this experience, because I didn’t want to descend into hyperbole (well, more than I already do – zing! – beat you to it), but time enough has passed now that I…
April may have been the cruelest month to Eliot but February is mine; the calendar, it snakes left to right, down and down like some intestinally-shaped hourglass before finally stopping here on the nineteenth. And here I stand, still squinting under the pall of grief, but the sun must be endured – it hurts my eyes…
Vacuuming up the tiny pink and blue pieces from the Game of Life, sprinkled like chaos on the floor, I feel like God or some higher vengeful being. I listen as they rattle up the pipe, through the tube, before being spat into the belly of the machine; the clear perspex, there to demonstrate the…
Days 6 & 7 I’m going to be honest here by admitting I didn’t know much about Macau before arriving there. Yes, I knew it was a very old Portuguese trading port. Yes, I knew it was also very big on gambling. It also featured as a locale in the latest Bond movie, Skyfall. In…
Day 3 Broken arm and hospital Days 4 & 5 As you can see, I was a little tired … … and yet, we pressed on! Saturday afternoon was spent wandering around the central district of Hong Kong. The biggest I had for wanting to explore Hong Kong, why I put it on my living…
Days 1 & 2: Disneyland How to become a ‘first family’ Being time-whacked travellers, having only arrived at our hotel late the previous evening, we were up early and at the gates well before the opening time of 10am. This put us up near the beginning of the queue on the left hand side of…
