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Take me back to the year 1972
The first hint I might be a Time Lord happened in high school. So I wasn’t panicked when my old mate Orville proudly showed me his new watch. That’s Orville all over. One upmanship. I had just named more Doctors than he could. I stared at his watch face. It said 4:17. I glanced at…
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Fly-fishing trauma with a happy ending
Imagine I am lying on a psychiatrist’s sofa. Totally relaxed. Eyes closed. Ready to open my mind to you. Your name is Dr Carl Jung and you are the shrink who popularised word-association tests. You sit on a chair ready to jot down all my reactions and response times. Your opening word is: ‘mother’. My…
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Top of a lighthouse is on my bucket list
Get in line if you want to know how many humour columnists it takes to change a lightbulb. I’ve got a more pressing riddle: how many humour columnists can you squeeze into a lighthouse? That’s the question I asked in an email I sent to Steve Jeffrey, former editor and proprietor of the Anchor Weekly…
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I’m being followed by a Moon Rabbit shadow
According to a long-standing urban myth, the Great Wall of China can be seen from the surface of the moon. The idea was firmly debunked by astronaut Michael Collins in his 1988 book Liftoff. How he even determined this is a little puzzling to me. Collins, after all, remained in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and…
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Two things will happen in my next novel
In the final book of my Windy Mountain series, someone will get married and someone will die. They may even be the same person. I haven’t decided yet, so please go easy on me. That uncertainty probably tells you a lot about me. I try to write blog posts weekly because they behave themselves. They turn up, do…
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