Posts Tagged: bio

  • A disappointed WOTW man dreams of a Sussex Pond Pudding while being served ice cream.

    What’s for pudding?

    As an English-born Australian I have the “lived experience” of navigating the differences between Australian English and British English. It is a fun place to play but sometimes the two just don’t reconcile. One of the most grating is how the English can call dessert “pudding”. I was brought up with Christmas puddings, suet puddings […]

  • Barry Humphries an AI generated image half Dame Edna Everage

    No more chunder from Barry Humphries

    This week Australian comedian, Barry Humphries died (22 April 2023). I had often wished that we had seen more of Humphries and less of Dame Edna Everage, now they are all gone. His writing was masterful and he was an aficionado of the Australian vernacular language. A memorial to Humphries’ life will be the cementing […]

  • Thomas de Quincy author of Confession of an Opium Eater dreams of the orient

    Opium usage

    I have just read a review of a life of Thomas De Quincey, an English writer of the 19th century. His most famous book is Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It was the first book to explore the nature of addiction. Opium has been known to man for thousands of years. It is believed […]