school daze

What is it about a school reunion that simultaneously attracts, repels and unnerves? This weekend I’ll hop on a plane for the short flight, booked in August last year, to Tamworth “Country Music Capital of Australia”, where I attended boarding school for my last 2 years in 1982-83. The lead up has comprised 12 months of … More school daze

Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home

A recent article on SMH introduced me to Dunbar’s Number “the maximum number of friends a human can have at any one time” apparently 150 on average, of which 5 to 7 are intimate relationships increasing in layers of lessening intimacy up to a maximum of 1500 people including all and sundry who we don’t know … More Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home