My colleague and friend Kylie has just entered the third trimester of her pregnancy. She has begun to dream. Vividly. Not just images, but sounds and smells as well. Yesterday she informed me that I had been in one of her dreams. We were in a hospital together. We both had a baby. She said [...]

Have just been listening to the latest Deborah Conway CD, Summertown, for the nth time – you know, the one that I got signed (along with my precious Do Re Mi CD) by Deb herself in Tony and Rae’s loungeroom at the Tony and Rob (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) mini-concert – and, [...]

And how to make a choice. I guess it depends on the purpose. Several girlfriends have recently or are currently going through the protracted process of choosing a name for their children. Family names? Old names? New names? There are infinite options. I, myself, have only ever been involved in choosing names for pets. Ah, [...]

But here it is. The doorbell doesn’t work but at night, with the hall light on behind it, it’s the prettiest door in the street.

Rather late but nevertheless, as per Daniel’s meme, here is the bathroom cabinet in my house. Note the segmentation into three zones of activity. It contains the usual assortment of a modern girlie’s bathroom products: everything from deoderant to cold cream, face masks to dencorub, cottonballs to dettol. And some spare earplugs. There alsoused to [...]