A few weeks ago, distracted and sleepy I backed my car into our limestone wall. I should’ve known better, especially as my wife was watching on. It was highly embarrassing. I stupidly had the radio on, was fiddling with my sunglasses and probably the phone at same time. I ignored the increasingly rapid pips of the reverse sensors...Read More

The bull came out of the blue … well out of the bush … and slammed into the side of our car. Bouncing off it tried to scramble away as we slammed on our brakes, so it then caught the front bumper as it flew over the bonnet and back out in the bush on...Read More

Busy junction on the way to work. Stream of traffic, two lanes, traffic lights red ahead. The right hand lane includes those that are going to turn right at the lights, but the line is much shorter than the queue in the left hand lane, which is only for those that want to go straight...Read More

I am sure there are some people doing it tough out there, but from what I witnessed at the weekend, ‘we’ (the general working family population of Western Australia) have never had it so good and quite a few are doing OK … We live opposite a lovely park, which has a lake, children’s playground,...Read More

A year ago I bought myself a nice new 4 cylinder petrol car with all the mod cons. I’ve driven 8,000 kms, which divided by the number of work days (it really only takes me to work and back, plus the odd meeting) is 32 kms a day. The average car commutes 55 kms a...Read More