Author: peter@wombatorial.com

5th of October, 1999. 4 people – my spouse (35) and I (42), and our two children Chris Hancock (10) and Gabrielle A. C. Hancock (20 months), each armed with a one way plane ticket from SYD to SFO. Here’s the receipt for that epic journey of migration, from the Flight Centre at Bankstown Shopping

I woke up late this morning!It was all rather strangeThe sun was not yet shiningThe moon was there – for a change? She danced all round and twirledIn her overtimeI knew she was arrangingA newly crafted rhyme Skipping cross the cloudsDancing fro and toHidden ‘mong the shrouds.Deciding what to do That is how I found

Possum. My cat in the UK, 2012. Next door neighbour has her now. She used to commute with me to France, Belgium, Netherlands for work (road/ferry/car-train). We both had passports. Me, Aussie, she, British. First time I took Possum across the channel, there was a big swell. Portsmouth to Le Havre, 4 hour ferry ride.

“Nobody mentioned you’re planning to come”(when I departed for this Earth) FALLING (to earth)I ran around clouds from way up aboveThen one day when ready I took off my wingsand put on my lovely new coat of loveAnother new body for all of the things BOUNCING (on earth)I bounced all around and took all the knocksTaking all

The word “Current” has two meanings in the English language.One meaning is “flow” (as in a river), the other is “present time” (as in now)I think it’s no accident that the same word has these two meanings.Sometimes the meaning can be intertwined! Have you wondered of the flow…?Sometimes ebb and sometimes go…Sometimes up and sometimes

Monday, December 22, 2008Part 5 – Motor Bikes and MayhemStinking hot weather. 11pm, and still it was over 40 degrees Celsius. It was mid-February, 1992. It would be a little more bearable if it just wasn’t quite so muggy as well. Peter waited outside the club. The lady was on her way out of the

GODFATHERS AND GRANDFATHERS – Act I, Scene I This is going to be a happy story. You wouldn’t know it though, at the outset. Dramatic, but ultimately happy. My godfather was killed one day driving his car out of Sydney down the Princes Highway south towards the Illawarra region. He was on Bulli Pass, so

Westbury, Wiltshire, England. My home town for 4 years. 90 minute train ride from London Paddington Station. Locals have a “West Country” accent (think pirates). Nestled at the western end of the Salisbury Plain, an interesting a geological feature called a chalk plateau, home of the largest chalk -carved “Whitehorse” made millennia ago. 10 minutes

Various Places at 34,000-41,000 feet over Planet Earth(written over England, Scotland, Iceland, the southern tip of Greenland, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Maine, New York, Virginia, and finally, North Carolina) December 23, 2008Part 9 – Mothers and Sons To each a heart, I give a branch, of the tree, for all humanity.To each a breath, from life