Articles
by George Wright
These articles are examples of how I have been trying to improve my writing skills
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I broke a shoe-lace this morning. When the day starts like that you should know what’s coming, but I ignored all the warning signs. I had only two minutes to put the cat outside, kick my son’s bed to wake him up, iron a clean shirt, drape my tie around my neck, shove a piece of toast into my mouth and kiss my wife ... More
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My big brother told me that water flows downhill because plug holes are always at the bottom of the bath. He can talk about water for hours, pointing out how drops of water don’t like each other and won’t join together on the duco of cars, the ability of clouds to float rather than sink, and the reasons why drunks always lie in gutters on their sides..More
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I can remember one election when I met a sitting councillor, but that was before amalgamations. I stood next to him in a bus in a traffic jam on the Eastern Freeway. He always spoke with a serious look on his face and whenever he opened his mouth I couldn’t stop staring at adam’s apple bobbing up and down ‘Traffic is a state matter and not the responsibility of local government.’ ....More
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It’s not often I buy a new car. The last time I thought about it my wife immediately said she’d pay half, as long as I promised not to stick Collingwood stickers over the back windscreen. We abandoned the idea when she found out I was negotiating with the salesman......More
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Living With Bushfires And Chooks
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I live in Wallaby Ground with Mother (the wife), four kids and two chooks called
Chickenshit and Eggsactly. Chickenshit thinks that I’m her mother and follows me
everywhere. Eggsactly follows Chickenshit. They got those names because
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| Far From the Silent Majority
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I’ve come to the conclusion that emergency-management folk are deaf and colour-blind. Take our local fire brigade. Not content with a bell, they now have a siren....More |
At the outset I should state that my credentials as an expert on canning affairs are limited. I am tolerated by the family pet which gives me a degree of acceptance, I suppose and I am occasionally blest with a lick or wag of tail, but more from pity than genuine affection.........More |
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Dogs love water. Without encouragement they will splash, romp, swim, roll, jump and wriggle in any body of stagnant pool. But if you want them to take a bath, their aspect changes......More |
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| In this life, the experience gained in one field of endeavour is the grounding for another. If you have political ambitions, for example, I could not suggest better training than the dog ring....More. |