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Bill Ralston: bodies of evidence

What do men and women notice first about each other?

By Bill Ralston In Life

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28th November, 2013
While walking up Franklin Rd from my house recently, I was pondering the annual vexed question of our Christmas lights. Should I simply stick up the same ones from last year or make a bit more of an effort and add something new, such as a laughing Santa or cute halogen reindeer? I’d been a bit shaken by the guy in Canberra who had stuck up 502,165 lights around his property, thus simultaneously gaining a Guinness world record and draining the Australian national power grid at the same time. As this entailed the use of nearly 50km of cabling and would probably put out enough heat to melt ...

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