I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
I’m not quite old enough to remember when the surfer movie Big Wednesday was in the cinemas. I think it might have been in 1978, when I was still in primary school. I did see it in the last week of school in 1982, where study for the year ceased and the teachers offered us …
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I must admit, for all that I love wine and spend lots of money drinking premium reds, I count the times I have actually drank real Champagne, as in the stuff they make in that region of France, rather than other sparkling ones, on one hand. I probably should explain myself a little better. In …
Having a particular interest in the English language, I like reading books like The Story Of English and Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue, and biographies on lexologists like Dr Samuel Johnson and the murderous lunatic (I kid you not) who helped build the original Oxford Dictionary. One word whose obscure origins do vaguely confound me, but …
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Now that I am retired (well, not officially til July, but I am not planning to ever go back to the office), I do not think that I will ever have cause to visit Canberra again. Much as Blue Poles is now a part of Australian cultural history due to the initial controversy followed by …
Continue reading “Mervyn Napier Waller – An Artist Who Needs No Gallery”
Furniture dealer Franco Cozzo died recently, at age 87. He is famous for the ads he used to run back in the 1980s on Channel Ten on Sunday mornings, when Ten would run such awful shows as Grecian Scene and Variety Italian Style. In a combination of Italian and deliberately broken English, Franco Cozzo would …
In late 2021 I was in the midst of a very long and pleasant staycation. I visited a few pubs and wrote an entry in my blog which listed several of the better beer gardens of Melbourne. Happily, I have been on a permanent staycation since mid 2023, and this means that I have visited quite …
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In the course of my adult life, I have haunted many pubs across inner Melbourne in particular, as well as having visited many more around greater Melbourne and out in the country. I have never actually seen any ghosts or had any supernatural experiences, and in the bright light of mid afternoon as I write …
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