I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
My front verandah is one of my favourite parts of my home. Provided it is not too warm, it is a great place to sit in the evening and enjoy the end of the day. I was sitting on it last Saturday night with one of my friends, sipping some wine (red of course – …
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I have met George, Cardinal Pell, four times. The first was when a friend of mine, one with far greater devotion to Catholicism than I, organised for him to speak at Monash University in mid 1988. He was a newly appointed auxiliary bishop at the time, and he spoke diffidently but firmly, like someone might …
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I am being a bit self indulgent with the title for this blog post, which most means something like ‘The Year That Was And The Year That Will Be’ in Latin. [I assume I have mentioned at some point during the nigh on three and a half years life of this blog that I studied …
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/three-men-charged-over-violent-melbourne-derby-pitch-invasion-20221219-p5c7jm.html I bet they have as few teeth too!
I remember, circa 1991 or 1992, during the troubles in what was then called Yugoslavia, going with a Greek friend down to South Melbourne to watch the soccer team then known as South Melbourne Hellas play against the team then known as Melbourne Croatia. I think that the game was then in the national league, …
I’m still convalescing from the Covid, and isolating is sending me mildly around the twist. To keep me somewhat sane, I have been paying more attention to streaming TV than usual. Which led me to start watching The English, a revisionist Western series starring Emily Blunt, an aristocratic Englishwoman setting out in the American West …
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