If I could sum up my childhood in one word it would be… BORING.  So much has changed in our wo...

Scotto and I had a fight last night. We were watching a movie and I wouldn't shut the hell up from the first scene until the last,...

I was on my afternoon walk when I happened to overtake an older couple ambling along with their two dogs.  “Are they Mini-Fox Terriers?”...

                                        The streets here in my suburb are plagued with the living dead. Large groups of raucous, stagger...

A to Z April Challenge We had a small gathering at Chez Poinker yesterday as a belated celebration of son Hagar’s twenty-first birthday and ...

Have you ever seen those clairvoyants on the telly preying on the grief and desperation of the recently bereaved?   I reckon I co...

                                            The word “blog” is a truncated version of “web log”. A log is a journal … a diary of though...

It makes me really, freakin cranky when I see sub-standard crap being praised on the media/internet whilst clearly talented musicians, wri...

With 35+ degree heatwave temperatures across Australia over this Christmas period the only place to be is here… Pinky, Kyles and Kaz...

You can tell it’s the last week of school by the sticky, stained fingers and faces of all the kids at school; it’s candy cane season.  ...

                               Pinky and "Someone" It was a gorgeous, breezy, sunny day. Pinky was excited; she and Scotto had m...

Look... you can stop laughing right now! Okay! If I can give tips on raising a daughter… click here Tips on how blogging can be bad for ...

Introducing the gorgeous Harriet Dyer (in character)! During the fifteen or so years I taught speech and drama and was the director of...