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The plausibility gap in the denial of climate change science
I had this piece published in the Drum online. This part of the ABC website has been defunded so I've copied the piece here in case it disappears. ~ ~ ~ For climate change 'sceptics', denialists, contrarians or what Barry Jones recently called 'confusionists' to...
A piece in Overland Literary Journal
I am really delighted to have a piece published in the Overland Literary Journal. I gave them this piece with an extremely lame title 'Are the child free just a late modern phenomenon' and they come up with 'Baby booms and fallow wombs: the false history of child...
Switzerland
Switzerland was all about fabulous friends, magnificent mountains, trains and chocolate. In fact we hardly ate any chocolate when we were there, but chocolate shopswere everywhere. We arrived in Morges, on the shore of Lake Geneva, to the open-armed welcome of all the...
Lodeve and Langue Doc
My folks Gaye and Ron have a share in an apartment in Lodeve in the Langue Doc region of France (for some years) but we weren’t sure that we’d ever get a chance to visit. We arrived on a warm afternoon to 1 Place de la Rebublique to find a big (for 2 people) white...
Paris!
Beautiful beautiful Paris. How to choose where to go and what to see in our short 2.5 days there? For example there is a museum for just about everything you could imagine – counterfeiting, magic, eroticism, fans, freemasonry, clocks, smoking, perfume, tennis,...
In which Mr and Mrs Goshawk become truly middle-aged
We were renamed by Janet at one B&B who when booking a table for us (at the 400 year old pub with the entrance to the smugglers tunnel) forgot our names and saw something that made her say “Goshawk”! We had a hire car and a couple of spare days. The surf was...