On Christmas Eve 1914, soldiers on both sides of the Western Front laid down their weapons and sang together across no-man’s-land. Their brief, unsanctioned truce reminds us that we can find peace, even in entrenched positions.

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'Memo to the heads of debauchment'
(An Australian office tragedy in three acts)

Misery does not love company. Still,
troglodytes unite in micro-managing
and glory-hogging their way up
the corporate pecker... etc.
(back in 2010, still true)

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Tia has mixed views about winter and rain.

'... We are, most of us, world-class experts when it comes to identifying the shortcomings of others. A mate’s spinelessness, a colleague’s arrogance, a partner’s maddening insecurity, each flaw sticks out like a sore thumb...'

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