Gaslight: Manipulation, Asylums & Old Hollywood
Since the 2016 election that gave Donald Trump a platform, not to mention the presidency, the word has been everywhere. But what does it mean? Where does gaslight come from?…
Quarantine – The Plague, Lepers, Covid and Goats
When you think of quarantine, what comes to mind? Leper colonies of the past? Two weeks to flatten the curve? A hundred years ago, when leprosy was considered a public…
Vanilla – Cake, Princesses and Bondage
It’s the most hashtagged flavour of icecream, the second most expensive spices in the word, and it’s much maligned. How did vanilla go from being a rare orchid that, to…
It’s a Giveaway!
It’s giveaway time over at Goodreads. Enter to win a copy of Floating Upstream – a real, flick-the-pages-with-your-fingers copy that you can dog ear, cry onto, underline and the rest…
What to do when email is overwhelming you
Remember when email was AWESOME? If you’re old enough to remember life before email (yes, I am, whatever) then you’ll also remember that emails (no pictures, just plain text files)…
The happiest day…
We had hard rubbish collection a week ago and Jeff and I gladly shed a few hundred kilos of crap from the garage. BUT… Along the way (thanks to a…
World record temperature and that sort of thing…
So it’s going to be 43 degrees today. Even more impressive is that in Farenheit it’s 109.4 This is followed by yesterday’s top of 44.5 Celsius or 112.1 Fahrenheit And…
I’ll Have fries With That
I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s No Logo and, frankly, all that talk about multinationals, workers below the poverty line and abuse of corporate power gave me a hankering for a lukewarm…