Delectable vs. Average

{After dessert}  “Come on, give me a kiss.” “No. You’ll take away the taste of ice-cream I’ve still got in my mouth.” “Aren’t my kisses tasty?” “Not as much as that Maxibon was.”

A quickie

Say you catch your son dunking toothbrushes into the toilet. Say these are brand new toothbrushes on top of all the other toothbrushes you’ve purchased in the previous months because this is his new hobby. Say the toilet is very clean. Say you hold the brushes in your hand and go, “Okay, do I chuck them again…

Author wars – pretty soon JG Ballard and Helen Garner will be battling it out between our sheets

The other night Adam and I played a little game in bed (while we’re reading, dirty people). It was called, “Out of the books we’re reading, which author makes/made more from their writing than the other?” As Adam suggested the game, I immediately launched into a defensive diatribe that it’s not about the money but…