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- 9 February 2012 "Sorry I Can’t Hear You" by John Stephen in Wit and Whimsy 2 Comments
I'm deaf.
I mean I used to be deaf, or something like that. I have been told the condition is known [More...]
- 9 February 2012 "To Nimbus Darkened Laugharne" by Dermott Ryder in Contemplation - 1 Comment
I spent the summer of a boyhood birthday with my cousins in Aberdyfi, Gwynedd, on the west coast of Wales. [More...]
- 8 February 2012 "Hats: Let’s Turn the Tide and Widen the Brim" by Mary Pearl in Musings - 1 Comment
My granddaughter, Dezzy0, told me 'that wearing a hat at high school is only an optional part of her uniform.' [More...]
- 8 February 2012 "Men and their Balls" by Ian Arkell in Wit and Whimsy 6 Comments
Whilst many human habits and customs confuse me no end, this fascination that many males have with their balls has [More...]
- 5 February 2012 "A Pitch in Time" by Gloria MacKay in The Good Old Days 5 Comments
Olga, my genteel friend and long gone mentor, who I still picture with a crochet hook [More...]
- 5 February 2012 "Roddy" by John Stephen in Short Stories 4 Comments
As I looked over to the cemetery I noticed a curious thing. A man was standing flanked by two tough [More...]
- 4 February 2012 "Morning" by John Merchant in Musings
I open one eye. The bedroom is in semi-darkness; the only light is from a street lamp shining like a [More...]
- 4 February 2012 "Cockatoos" by warrigal in Haiku
Three white cockatoos
Heads bobbing in our bird bath,
Pinching sunflower seeds.
- 1 February 2012 "February 2012 Book Reviews" by John Paul Newbury in Book Reviews
For this edition we offer 6 reviews.
Peruse Australian fiction, international, indigenous, and natural issues and happiness.
Click the heading for the full [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "From Napoli to Palermo" by jeffreyb in Travellers' Tales
Excerpt from Winged Word by Jeff Lynch
I can see the lights of Palermo dead ahead of our Napoli to Palermo night [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "More Laughs from Kath" by kmounsey in More Funny Business
Compiled by Kath Mounsey
Thought for the Month: Poverty is a condition with but one advantage. It doesn't take much to [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Nova Scotian Rambles – Chapter 1" by Peter Payan in Travellers' Tales
As our departure date approached, my wife heard that Olva, a relative of hers was thinking about doing the same [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Blackbirding and finding family blong yumi (belong to you and me)" by pnewbury in Australian Studies - 1 Comment
In 2003, a small community project Blackbird was founded on the need to reunite families of the descendents of those [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "A Bonzer Thank You from Dr Julia Miller" by Gloria MacKay in Feature Stories 2 Comments
Back in 2008 I sent out a request for participation in a survey I was conducting to examine the differences in [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Visiting Hiroshima by Tom Hellawell" by Peter Hinchliffe in Open Writing
Selected by Peter Hinchliffe for the February 2012 issue of Bonzer.
1946 found HMS Vengeance lying alongside at Woolloomooloo, Sydney Harbour, [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Making Sense of it All" by John Merchant in Science Stuff - 1 Comment
Most of us are acutely aware of our senses – smell, sight, hearing and touch. We’re probably less aware of [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Location! Location! Location!" by Colleen McMillan in Theme of the Month - 1 Comment
It winked at her. It was mocking her. She knew it was, or was she just going mad? Cathy [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Out of the Corner of my Eye" by John Merchant in Theme of the Month 3 Comments
I was born with normal vision, but at age 9, a sinus infection spread to my right eye, which swelled [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Location! Location! Location!" by Wendy in Theme of the Month
Of course, it’s the mantra of the Real Estate industry. They tell us to 'buy the worst house in the [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Out of the Corner of my Eye" by Colleen McMillan in Theme of the Month
I would walk across the little park and catch the ferry back to the peace and order of the [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "A New Year Reminiscence" by Dermott Ryder in Folkwatcher's Odyssey
The old year passes, the New Year arrives. We sit in the aftermath of the celebration and reminisce, tell stories.
The [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Venting My Spleen" by Al McCartan in Venting My Spleen
Whew! The holiday rush is over as is the silly season and normality reigns at Chez CherAl.
I trust you all [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "The Claddagh Ring" by rhillard in Mystery Space 3 Comments
Sandra stormed into Archie’s Antiques, grabbed a duster and rubbed at the legs of a colonial chair with angry vigour. [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Nullarbor Nights" by Ian Arkell in Travellers' Tales 6 Comments
It’s the people you meet along the road. People with a story. We’re on the Nullarbor, part of that stretch [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "If Only I Had a Crystal Ball" by Al McCartan in Theme of the Month 2 Comments
Oh! G’day. Hamilton Y. Katto here, your guest columnist for today.
Readers, I am as happy as all [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "The Boxing Day Test" by Brian Barratt in A Piece of My Mind
It's something of an annual ritual to attend the opening day of the cricket test match known as the Boxing [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "If Only I Had a Crystal Ball" by Mary Pearl in Theme of the Month - 1 Comment
If only I had a crystal ball I’d be tempted to look up the next week’s Tattslotto numbers. After that, [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "How to Become a Walking Advert" by Peter Hinchliffe in Made in Yorkshire - 1 Comment
'Check the label,' my mother would say, delivering a regular lecture.
These were the days when I was 16 years old, [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "War Must Become Impossible – part III" by Rodney Gascoyne in Rodney's Ramblings 10 Comments
(I originally wrote this article in March 2003, as the air bombing started the war with ‘Shock and Awe'. [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Perspectives in Time" by Lytrice Hood in As I was Saying
I’ve always been fascinated by volcanoes. Fiery vents that shape our planet and give us some insight into its evolutionary [More...]
- 1 February 2012 "Who Said That?" by Gloria MacKay in Your Call 3 Comments
'Time and tide wait for no man.'
- 26 January 2012 "A Girl’s Worst Friend" by Mary Pearl in The Good Old Days 15 Comments
Cooking and ironing are a girl’s worst friend. At least they were last century when we were bound to the [More...]
- 26 January 2012 "The Moral Highground" by Ian Arkell in Wit and Whimsy 5 Comments
Les was pacing. ‘You guys must have heard something round the traps, must have had some idea?’
Benny and Fred said [More...]
- 26 January 2012 "To the Happy Couple … A DAUGHTER" by Dermott Ryder in Contemplation 2 Comments
For Caitlin Elizabeth Reed
You will be our fair-haired girl -
our sunlight on mysterious waters,
our zephyr like whisper of [More...]
- 25 January 2012 "Dentists" by aussie trish in Light Verse - 1 Comment
Me mouth feels lopsided
And decidedly numb.
Can’t speak without drooling,
From the dentist I’ve come.
I’d not be alarmed
By a sock on [More...]
- 21 January 2012 "Compulsory Maturity" by John Stephen in Fact or Fantasy? 2 Comments
'I won't let them take my son!'
Charlotte slammed the cellulose composite dish down hard. Plastic had long since entered the [More...]
- 20 January 2012 "John Powell" by Gloria MacKay in Letters to the Editor 13 Comments
It is with great sadness I share with you the following message from John Powell's family.
John has [More...]
- 16 January 2012 "I’m That Close" by Ian Arkell in Wit and Whimsy 32 Comments
I’m easily bored. I admit it. It was a wet Sunday, rain lashing at the windows, nothing on television and [More...]
- 15 January 2012 "We Have Failed" by John Powell in Your Thoughts 7 Comments
It was an evening in December 1940 in our London home and we were relaxing after supper. Not for long. [More...]
- 12 January 2012 "The Best Alternative To Drowning – Part One" by John Stephen in Musings 4 Comments
For some strange reason the oft quoted phrase 'the whole of my life flashed before my eyes' has been on [More...]
- 12 January 2012 "Up-State Places" by John Merchant in Contemplation 8 Comments
There were the years in 'up-state' places,
Where air was clean and unpolluted.
Where quality of life was 'unsurpassed',
And incest never mentioned.
Where [More...]
- 12 January 2012 "Birds Through My Window" by Brian Barratt in Musings 3 Comments
Some people call them magpie-larks. Others call them peewees or pee wees. It depends on which part of Australia you [More...]
- 11 January 2012 "Understanding" by Wendy in Short Stories 6 Comments
Today I will not lose my temper, I told myself firmly. Whatever she says, I will remain calm. It was [More...]
- 5 January 2012 "The Great Democrat Swine Flu Conspiracy" by Ian Arkell in The Speaker's Corner 26 Comments
It’s always dangerous when you criticise another country. Especially when you don’t understand the culture entirely or grasp the nuances [More...]
- 4 January 2012 "Peace and Prosperity in 2012 to all my friends" by Phillip Flockhart in Letters to the Editor 4 Comments
- 30 December 2011 "Cruise Control" by Ian Arkell in Wit and Whimsy 5 Comments
It has been dark, windy and cold here of late: I have run out of library books, I have a [More...]
- 23 December 2011 "The Quiet Woods" by John Merchant in Free Verse 15 Comments
I return to the quiet woods,
In my mind.
The woods that overlooked my birth
And later were my playground;
[More...]
- 22 December 2011 "Is It That Time of Year?" by Ian Arkell in Letters to the Editor 2 Comments
Well yes, it's that time of year. So I'd just like to thank all the contributors to Bonzer who have [More...]
- 21 December 2011 "Christopher Hitchens" by Ian Arkell in The Speaker's Corner 3 Comments
Christopher Hitchens is dead. He is dead at 62 from oesophageal cancer, a cancer that statistically, few survive. And he [More...]
- 18 December 2011 "The Cookie Crumbles" by Gloria MacKay in Wit and Whimsy 16 Comments
I have reached the point where I would trade all of my Christmas cookies for one piece of fresh strawberry [More...]
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