I read books for one simple reason – to stay sane in a world that has clearly lost its mind.
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Timbo’s Top Thirty Movies
The day before Christmas, I took my youngest daughter to see Spider-Man: No Way Home. It felt like a novel thing to do because we had not been to a movie theatre in a long, long time.
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I was tired and irritable, so I had little patience for what happened next. After a difficult hike, the narrow trail I was on dissolved into thick scrub. The path was no more.
Continue reading “Blisters On My Feet and The Broken Bridge of Doom”My Walk into The Great Unknown
My fear of the dark blossomed when I was seven years old. That’s when we (my family and I) moved into a house at the end of a dirt road in the Adelaide Hills.
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I created a new way to measure my social media activity while under the influence of… a chocolate donut 🍩
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The best education I received was when I learned to grow Oyster mushrooms.
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We all have a price. Each of us can be persuaded to compromise our sense of right or wrong if a reasonable sum of money or dream job is offered to us.
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My wife has told me more than once: “Tim, you like to play games and push other people’s buttons.”
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I found this book hiding in a box of unwanted paperbacks at a second-hand book fair beneath a church.
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What a time to be alive! Our industrialised society appears to be on its knees. Economic, political, and environmental crises jostle with each other to deliver a fatal blow.
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