Year: 2023

Today is the first day of Spring. Our Garden is already excited by its arrival. The first of September also marks the beginning of Brisbane Festival with a multitude of performances, events and concerts in many parts of the City. I dragged the Beekeeper into the City’s Botanical Gardens in the early evening for Lightscape.…

Apparently he was there with his family on the same day we were. Missed him ! Celebs are hard to pick out in the crowd as there was so much else to be concentrating on and I promised to bring you some more of the EKKA this year. My favourites are the quilts and some…

It’s a bit of a pilgrimage and this year is the first year I have not been a volunteer. Apparently we are no longer needed. So ticket on mobile off we went to explore with Robyn. She had not visited since her children were young. According to her not much has changed and I can…

Just back from a ceramics workshop. I am shattered. My wrists hurt, my back is sore and I feel as if I have been manhandling something quite ungovernable all morning. Reminiscent of a Greek Cypriot baptism with the oily and slithery baby writhing about in the priest’s hands. I was having similar feelings of just…

This is one of my absolute favourite walks in Sydney and I walk it whenever I am in the city. A beautiful sunny day with not much wind. Popular as ever but always exhilarating and rejuvenating.I started in Bondi and made my way past Icebergs to those lovely rock formations just around the corner. Just…

Off to the Art Gallery in Bondi Pavilion. Current exhibition are the participants for the Waverley Art Prize. Here are some of the artists which I liked. Joel Arthur with Excavator. Beautifully crafted. Give it a moment or two. But my favourite was D.R Snook with Everything sucks so I might as well. Then an…

Yes, a Japanese Greeting to welcome you to this blog, as I was immersed in Japanese Culture all day today and it was very special. I started off in the Bonsai House to look at bonsais and how they are planted, looked after and maintained. I took in Ikebana and several demos. Three different schools…

I went to the Botanical Gardens in Mount Coot-ha to see a Sculpture Festival and while the Sculptures were interesting it was nature that won the day with its most magnificent natural forms. I was blown away by some which are exceptionally beautiful. I like to identify plants but signs are not always there. Here…

I was just finishing from a Live Programme at the radio and as I was walking out of the building I saw this man and his shirt. I walked on and then stopped. I had to start a conversation so I went back and did just that. I said this is an interesting shirt and…

Off to get an annual mammogram check. It poured as I headed to the Wesley Hospital. Inside many women reading, knitting, watching the news waiting for their turn. The staff and volunteers respectful and efficient. Meg was pressing my breast into a pancake and applying the screws. I said she must look forward to going…