Year: 2022

A monumental week in America when Roe v Wade was simply cast out by the Supreme Court and the fate of American women’s healthcare took a nose dive. No longer are they free to make their own choices about their bodies and to plan their own lives. People around the world have been rightly appalled…

Longest night and shortest day in the Antipodes today and the light beckons me. The air is fresh and the sun so very bright. Warmer out than in, greens popping, snakes snoozing, nature subdued but always able to surprise, shades and sunlight slice the day and that blue sky, that blue sky is just my…

I share literature, puzzles and games with my little girl and many craft stuff. She knows I love nature so she shares what she notices around her. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this balance in our relationship. Yesterday it was Jewel bugs having fun on a tree and some months ago it…

Someone with an axe to grind ? The oldest convict-built structure surviving in Queensland, dating from 1828 the windmill tower has accommodated a range of uses. Constructed in 1828 to process the wheat and corn crops of the Moreton Bay penal settlement, it had a treadmill attached for times when there was no wind but also…

A new week begins and my Aussie life has taken up where it left off a while back. I marvel at the avos that have grown to a super size in our absence and how green everything is looking. I take a different route home today from Reading Radio and pass an electricity box with…

Why is it called that ? I do know the answer, but surely it should be known as Bed Lag as that is where it manifests. After the last episodes of Ozark which were exciting, we head to bed around midnight. Both at the same time. I thought it would reduce the chance of one…

A is for Avocet Birds and Arsenal B is for Banksy and finding out about his incredible life and works C is Country lanes – the intense green of the English Countryside. D is for Ducks E is for Eckstetd resto and Elizabeth Line the new tube line F is for flowers in the Cyprus…

 A is for Avocet Birds and Arsenal  B is for Banksy and finding out about his incredible life and works C is Country lanes – the intense green of the English Countryside. D is for Ducks  E is for Eckstetd resto and Elizabeth Line the new tube line F is for flowers in the Cyprus…

A tub full of roses to start the day – fragrant and colourful.  A stroll through St James Park and along the Mall. The city full of Union Jacks ready to celebrate Queen Lizzie on the first weekend in June. Much pomp and ceremony and a lot of rehearsing going on. The mounted band was…

In Covent Garden today visiting The Art of Bansky, a well curated exhibition about Banksy’s life and works. I am not a fan of graffiti, I suspect not many people are, but his personality and quick mind are so engaging. They have done a great job of quoting him and his collaborators as well as…