Category Archives: why is it so?

>’It’s All Too familiar’*

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Victor

> (*”Do I Know You” by Toby Keith) Incoming patient two days ago and instantly I knew that I knew her but for the life of me I wasn’t sure from where it was that I knew her. Under hospital rules … Continue reading →

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>’I’m tired of castles in the air’*

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Victor

>(*‘Castles in the Air’ by Don McLean) Well no, I’m not tired of them really. Arriving in town early for my appointment with the solicitor I sat for a while on the Mezzanine Level of the Queen Victoria Building and enjoyed … Continue reading →

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>Six Impossible Things Before Dinner

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Victor

> (Philip Escoffey) Psychic powers, fortune telling, mind reading and the like. Are you a believer or a sceptic or anywhere in between? It doesn’t matter which, you will almost certainly be impressed when Philip Escoffey performs “Six Impossible Things … Continue reading →

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>Dear Dorothy Dix #3

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Victor

>Why is it that lean young men have big penises? Just wondering.

Posted in Dorothy Dix, gay life, why is it so? | 4 Comments

>Duelling bookstores

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Victor

>I don’t understand the dynamics of the mega sized shopping centres. There are businesses in the centres that appear to me to be thriving and always full of purchasing customers that come and go like zephyr breezes on a summer … Continue reading →

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>Sing it like it is…

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Victor

>So there we were this afternoon in the Special Care Unit (ie Dementia) at the Nursing Home celebrating the June birthdays; my mother one of the birthday ‘girls’. An entertainer has been wheeled in to serenade us. She is of … Continue reading →

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>Open a new window

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Victor

>Our Body Corporate is looking at a proposal to replace all the window fittings to our apartment block. The building is forty years old and most of the windows are the originals and no longer suitable for our environmental conditions. … Continue reading →

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>Doctor Matchmaker

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Victor

>I went back to the doctor yesterday having completed the course of antibiotics he prescribed but still suffering cough and sweating symptoms.He checked my temperature which was OK and then poked and prodded around again as I breathed in and … Continue reading →

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>Open a new window…

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Victor

>…as my Auntie Mame might have sung. This spectacular photograph is of a window in my dining room. If you look closely you will see that the bottom edge of the top half is overlapping the top edge of the … Continue reading →

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>Changeling

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Victor

>Angelina Jolie is a single mother whose 9 years old son goes missing one Saturday whilst she is at work in this Clint Eastwood directed film which then exposes the Police and Administrative corruption in Los Angeles in the 1920s/30s. … Continue reading →

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