When I visited Italy three years ago, I was amazed. Aside from when I had first sighted Ayers Rock, I have never had a moment in Australia where something caused my heart to almost literally skip a beat. In Italy, seeing St Mark’s Basilica, the Arena of Verona, the Duomo in Florence, the Leaning Tower …
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Dare to Dream! The 2019 AFL Finals Series….
3 months ago, I did not really think the Western Bulldogs had much chance of playing in the AFL finals this year. But a dream run home in the second half of the season has got us ending in 7th place, just as we did in 2016, when we stormed through September to a fairytale …
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Word Became Flesh: The Strange and Real Afterlife of Ces Bludgett….
Some of the more colourful political news of the past few days jarred my memory about something from over three decades ago…. In the mid 1980s, the Melbourne University Student Newspaper Farrago occasionally ran an ‘Op-ed’ piece by a fictional character called ‘Ces Bludgett’. As I was never a student at Melbourne University, my readership …
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Bottle Aged Wine
Decided to treat myself to dinner tonight at the local Thai restaurant, which is run by some very nice people. Also decided to treat myself to a decent bottle of wine. Avondale Cellars, the local bottle shop, is independent and therefore it has a more extensive interesting range than a supermarket chain. In particular it …
Growing Oranges – one of the simple pleasures of suburban ‘peasant’ life….
My mother sometimes gets quite incensed when I refer to myself as a simple peasant (‘un semplice contadino’). As she likes to point out, whilst I am the son and grandson of peasants, I am not one, and have never suffered from the deprivations and hardships which they have. Indeed, through the expectations and encouragement …
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Are Possums Evil?
Here is a snap I took a few months ago of a possum in a tree in my front garden. Until recently they were pretty rare around Avondale Heights, but now they have in the past year suddenly become widespread, and for the first time I have been seeing them regularly on trees in my …
If a picture tells a thousand words, a Sunday cartoon can sum up my abandoned MA thesis….
Half a lifetime or so ago, I was enrolled in a Master of Arts by thesis course, which I eventually abandoned – hence my proud boast of being a post grad dropout. Nietzsche, Hegel and the End of History all seemed so intriguing to me back then. But this Sunday cartoon strip from Calvin and …
Grand Final Night 2016!
October 1 2016 was an awesome day. My brother and I went to see the Western Bulldogs play in the AFL Grand Final. Afterwards, we went to the Victoria Hotel in Footscray to celebrate the awesome victory. This picture is from the Channel 7 news footage the following night, where we were briefly shown. A …
I’ve been to Pisa and here is the proof!
I am still getting the hang of this blog. Here is a selfie I took in Pisa in 2016, when I visited it on my first and so far only trip to Italy. When I took a wrong turn and took a while longer to get to the Leaning Tower, I had a ‘wow’ moment …
So, Google Plus was good whilst it lasted….
I am not exactly an early adopter of technology. About six years ago, a colleague suggested, after I finally got an iPhone, that I should join Google +. Prior to that, I had not been on social media – Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat remain undiscovered countries for me. Henceforth, for five and a half …
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Lost For Words! 