Agatha and I took up Becky Blake’s very kind invitation to see her perform at a well-known restaurant in Adelaide, Luigi Delicatessen. Let it be said—before we get into Becky’s show—that the staff at Luigi are wonderful, the food amazing, the wine gorgeous and the general ambience top-notch. For one dish, Agatha and I shared some…
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ChatGPT and Shel Holtz
I listened to this podcast interview intently yesterday, and was blown away. ChatGPT—and AI in general—is way more advanced than I have given it credit for. There seems a HUGE amount of dog work that AI can take off the overworked and underappreciated communicator, allowing said communicator to focus on higher, more strategic and longer-term…
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Dunkirk II
It’s 1940, Dunkirk beach in France, and the Allied Forces have been completely defeated by the German Army and Luftwaffe.
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Butler the bus driver
Butler, the depot’s best driver, steered his double decker out of Wandsworth Depot and onto the A37. It was a typical London morning—grey, overcast, rain threatening to bring out the kids who splash in puddles. Each morning for five days a week, Butler drove a bus on the 415 route, the driver’s cabin fragranced by…
Daniel Murtagh has spent the last eighteen months of his life living with the unwashed and homeless, the mentally disabled and the forgotten heroes. He spent most of his time pretending to sleep amongst overflowing garbage bins under the Seaton Jetty, but once a week he would report to the Port Adelaide police station and…
A look at the Sherlock Holmes story of the Speckled Band, including how it does its job and why it is still the ‘high water mark’ for ‘locked door’ mysteries over a century later
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Logan Robinson
Logan Robinson, ex-Airforce, 28 yo and too heavily freckled for women, shares in the sadness of his best friends when their 6yo daughter is killed.
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Dunkirk
The fear of the men stranded on the beach, under intense fire from the Germans, was written in blood on their faces. The blood of their comrades and friends was not just splattered but splashed across the faces of the nearby living. Well, living-for-now. The sea at the back of both the fallen and the…
Andy Delmonte, a crime journalist with the only newspaper in Adelaide, introduces cyber-crime specialist Stephanie McBride, who is about to meet her maker