Stop,operate and listen:my minor surgery was a minor attraction

Stop,operate and listen:my minor surgery was a minor attraction

At a certain age,surgical procedures become the bread and butter of conversation.

  • byRichard Glover

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$7.50 for a toaster or $91.90 for a bucket of paint? The price is wrong

$7.50 for a toaster or $91.90 for a bucket of paint? The price is wrong

Does capitalism have some sort of random price generating machine at its heart?

  • byRichard Glover
Books are cooked:the eight problems I have with recipes

Books are cooked:the eight problems I have with recipes

Genuine question:why do I always have to cook it for 10 to 20 per cent longer than it says?

  • byRichard Glover
It’s my party and I’ll wear my sheepskin boots if I want to

It’s my party and I’ll wear my sheepskin boots if I want to

How have I lived for the past 40 years without owning a pair of ugg boots?

  • byRichard Glover
My grandson’s a poet and doesn’t even know it

My grandson’s a poet and doesn’t even know it

My first word was thoroughly utilitarian. Not so the first words of my tiny grandson.

  • byRichard Glover
‘It’s Sydney. We’re boiling’:A city of winter sceptics strikes again

‘It’s Sydney. We’re boiling’:A city of winter sceptics strikes again

We know our weather’s not perfect. But through chattering teeth and subzero homes,we just pretend it is.

  • byRichard Glover
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How Perkins Paste and an Elvis obsession saved me

How Perkins Paste and an Elvis obsession saved me

Fandom is often portrayed as ridiculous. I prefer to think that it’s a brave heart that can show so much love.

  • byRichard Glover
The perks (and minor pitfalls) of being a grandfather

The perks (and minor pitfalls) of being a grandfather

Carrying his beloved grandson fills Richard Glover’s knees and back with pain... and the rest of him with joy.

  • byRichard Glover
The 12 things I promise to do if I become prime minister

The 12 things I promise to do if I become prime minister

Leaf blowers,tea bags,the sale of scissors - they are all gone.

  • byRichard Glover
Banning books? I’m all the better for the blood and gore of my education
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Banning books? I’m all the better for the blood and gore of my education

My high school syllabus was a bloodbath of sex and death in which students were slowly marinated for six long years.

  • byRichard Glover
The perfect Mother’s Day gift - just add a ribbon

The perfect Mother’s Day gift - just add a ribbon

Back in my day,you’d bring home some misshaped clay lump,optimistically label it “an ashtray”,and await the response.

  • byRichard Glover