Australia has this system where vehicles in certain lanes are still allowed to turn at a junction even when the pedestrian light is green. Obviously the vehicle has to stop if pedestrians are crossing, but drivers are people. People bend the rules. People push their luck. People make mistakes. And this is how The Girl was hit. She was on the phone to her mother when a white car drove around the corner, hit her, then carried on driving. Bystanders leapt into action. One guy quickly explained to The Girl’s…
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A lady with long blonde hair sat down a few rows in front of me on the train to King’s Cross this evening. Then a few moments later a slightly older lady with short red hair sat next to her. They looked at each other and smiled politely. The red hair lady zoned out while she looked ahead, but something had caught the blonde haired women’s eye. Very much like the Subbuteo scene in Black Books, she started staring intently at the right-hand side of the red lady’s hair. In…
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You all know about my plan, right? I was going to spend the first three months doing nothing apart from drink beer and explore Sydney by bicycle. Then offset all that sin with a bit of house husbandry for The Girl – cooking, cleaning and so on. More importantly though, I wasn’t going to work. Well it didn’t go quite as well as planned. Two days after we moved into our new place it was already The Girl’s first day of work and for the next two weeks I slipped…
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