Year: 2021

Last night we had the good fortune to go to a concert by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Fran and Steve kindly made the tickets available to us. We were treated to three wonderful pieces of music by the orchestra conducted by Ben Northey. This conductor is destined to go places. He was outstanding and I couldn’t…

An ambient autumn morning and off to Brookfield to enjoy a walk around the garden of Scott and Robbie MacLay. They purchased the 21/2 acres in 2008 and it is truly remarkable to see how much they have done with the sloping block with views of the D’Aguilar Ranges. Robbie and Scott were on hand…

The posting today is a respectful bow to the lives lost this past week, some well known, like Prince Phillip and others who were childhood friends and loved members of their families, Mathieu Raynaud, Evie Lanitis and Georgia Polyviou. Sometimes going back into the past is quite a comforting way to address some of the…

It’s been an eventful couple of days. Carpet Pythons, mama and baba appearing in the garden and on our deck chairs. Lovely as they might be they always make me feel nervous as they are so close to the house. Sunday we discovered a leak in the bathroom and on Monday we were wondering why…

You cannot imagine how reinvigorated I feel finding the sun again after all the gloomy and wet days. So much so that last night after a sunny day I walked home from my dinner date. It was 10.30 at night but the sky was clear and full of stars, the jasmine from garden hedges hung…

Its been a very wet and overcast Easter Weekend here in Queensland. The rain did not stop on Easter Sunday and while this may be welcome by the end of the day I was feeling like a caged animal and desperate to get out. I only managed it today. I headed out as soon as…

A three day lockdown has been imposed following a small outbreak of the Uk Variant of Covid in Brisbane. It seems like an oversize reaction to a small problem until I am reminded of how it all started just a year or so ago. To date  2.8 MILLION people -the lives of mums, dads, grandparents,…

Vincent your ear must be buzzing today – today you are in our thoughts and in our conversations and here is why. Yesterday one of your paintings sold for 30 million euros and for all your ardent fans and emulators the hope and the expectation is that works of art in Vincent’s style will one…

Today marks 200 years since the start of the Greek Revolution for Independence from Ottoman Rule in 1821. There are many commemorative events going on in Brisbane and all over the world. We owe so much to their efforts to fight for their liberty and their democracy.  Its significance was marked for me differently but…

The house was beginning to smell musty, a smell I remember well from Delhi monsoon days when nothing had time to dry. But joy of joys or as the Greeks say God’s Joy the sun came out this morning. I threw open all the windows, fed the birds, paid my bills and headed out with…