I live in a street. It’s called Byrill Creek.

What a diabolical drive it can be!

Potholes so deep, you could bury a jeep!

 And a caravan too, when it rains.

Now city folk come to my country home

And some a...

As a young under graduate science student, I was impressed with the rigor and reliability of the scientific method. It was certainty all bagged up and ready to chew on, the stuff of life ingested, pro...

I know women often envy men the convenience of being able to piss anywhere, behind a tree, casually leaning against a car on the side of the road, over the gunwales of a boat and the list goes on. Of ...

Imagine dragon flies with close to a metre wing span hovering around in huge swamps full of lush vegetation. The carboniferous period, where massive amounts of atmospheric CO2 was locked up by forests...

Drifting out of the gloaming consciousness of full blown anesthetic recently, I had a blissful thought that the end of the world was coming and it was just fine! Afterwards, the realization that I’d b...

Curious about AI? I was too and used it to produce the following article. Pretty impressive eh? It lacks a personal touch but I can see the potential for the huge changes it will bring to our world. I...

There is something very primal about composting toilets: the deep dark hole below, the connectivity with nutrient and carbon cycles. As a conservationist of many years, I relate to my own need to cons...

The federal Government have recently announced a plan to get more gas from the Australian fields sold onto the Australian market. Meanwhile there is a push for all new homes to have electric induction...

Crazy Joe squinted towards the horizon. Dust the colour of a desiccated dingo covered the curvature of the earth in every direction. Old habits die hard. Joe wondered, again, why he bothered looking f...

We all have to face it eventually. Even as children we play with it, eat it even, driven by a curiosity that seems to stay with us for most of our lives. How many are honest enough to admit that they ...

The wooden toilet seat looks warm, it is NOT! Disadvantages of outside loos extend to an extra dose of vitality first thing in the morning as the unavoidable ass kissing cold timber permeates the soul...

The swollen creeks swirl effortlessly through pastures, sweeping all and sundry along on their merry way. Water finds the path of least resistance and uses all sorts of tricks to erode the land to mak...

There is a Hopi Indian prophecy that warns that when the mark of the bear is everywhere, the beginning of the end of abundance is nigh. Look around you….bar codes are everywhere. The bar code symboliz...

The rush on toilet paper during Covid lockdowns had me laughing so hard it nearly broke me. A whole civilization so anally fixated the most important thing was to NEVER be caught short in the ass wipi...

I was 21 in the Egyptian Sinai, 1988 when I realized the Bedouin I was travelling with held me in contempt for my lack of personal hygiene. I was unceremoniously banned from eating with them as I coul...

The process of taking one’s own manure and transforming it biologically into something that will nourish and support the earth, sequester carbon and provide food for countless organisms in a complex f...

Sitting atop my besa-block throne I reflect on the inspiration that moved me to build my first composting toilet. My Mum. She came to visit the pioneers shack at my place a year or so after I had boug...

I have a sticker in my composting toilet that reads “What I poo, changes the world”, and in fact it does change the world. Every time I leave my scat in the composting chamber, millions of micro and m...

Misty morning and mighty mountains lie and loom in and over the valleys to the east. My throne grows colder, as I try desperately to spread out the first point of impact and lessen the shock. There is...

There’s a track winding back to an old fashioned shack on the road to Wagga Wagga,

If you’ve been there you will agree, it has a wonderful amenity, for those that need to find it

As an outhouse, it stan...

The human condition prevails upon us to deal with our shit. I mean it really stinks…right! Throughout the ages the smell of human excrement has warned us against getting it all over us, eating it, add...

I have a sticker in my composting toilet that reads “What I poo, changes the world”, and in fact it does change the world. Every time I leave my scat in the composting chamber, millions of micro and m...

There’s a soaking ran falling and last months  earth cracks are starting to heal up. We’re all still here, the Mayans got it wrong but it still feels like we got a second chance. It’s the day after Ch...

In the beginning, we were prey. Soft bodies, slow, no claws or fangs, easy prey. We hid, scampered, scavenged, always moving, always on the lookout. Our eyes were our only decent asset, capable of det...

She slid silently and effortlessly from her host. A perfect extraction.   A good start she thought as she landed upright on the glass surface of the laboratory table. She peered upwards. Not a smear.

S...

It was back in 2027 when the first wave hit. Unfortunate residents in the low lying areas near Bondi beach were overwhelmed by a wave of untreatable sewage that had reached epic proportions. A wall of...

It is 4 am. A carpet snake slides along the top of the straw bale wall, its scales grinding a path across the lime render. I can tell it’s a big one by the length of sound coming across the bedroom. T...

COP OUT 26 was held recently in Scotland and the kilts were whirling with all the gaseous eruptions from various world leaders venting their sinuous calls to protect the planet from human induced clim...

It’s a week past lockdown and things are returning to some semblance of normality. Many of my friends have relished the opportunity to spend time at home, fixing and building, gardening and cleaning. ...

Busting for a leak? Dying for a crap? These expressions may well take on new meaning in a not too distant future where our food is grown from the nutrients we excrete as by-products of our metabolism.