I just wrote my first car crash. I killed three people. It feels awful.
A little like this
Daryl
There was an older lady and a man sitting on their deck. They were chilling with a beer (him) and a glass of wine (her). They were happy. They sat for a while. The man turned, as the lady said “I love you. We have been together for so long. You have supported me through […]
Discovering Harvey Graham.
I’ve been back working with Brisbane Arcade recently, for its 90th birthday celebrations. I love Brisbane Arcade: its bloody history, its Art Deco bone structure, and its personalities — many of whom I got to know when I was marketing manager there a decade ago. For the 90th, I’ve had the exceeding good fortune to work […]
The beeman cometh
If West End has the highest occurrence of native bee hives in the country, it’s probably due to Dr Tim Heard. Tim’s an entomological original: one of the pioneer native bee-keepers who’s been dabbling since the 1980s. He wrote an early article about them in Nature magazine in the 1990s. He’s done time […]

