The Cartridge Family

My word!

I love word play and word games. My favourite radio program used to be ‘My Word’ with Frank Muir and Denis Norden and guests. ABC RN used to play old episodes at 5am Sunday mornings. They played something from BBC Comedy every morning at that time eg ‘Just a Mi...

Thirty years ago I was an English teacher at an eastern suburbs high school. The students were generally a conscientious and pleasant bunch but they included the usual cohort of rebels, misfits and eccentrics. Kevin was none of these. He was a stocky lad, not an especi...

It is a glorious quiet sunny autumn day, and I have a glass of Shiraz in my hand. My favorite praying mantis goggles at me from the turning leaves of the Virginia 

creeper on my balcony. Soon the mantis will disappear, who knows where, and winter will come. I will...