Pete Murray – Summer at EurekaIt’s gentle and melodic with a pervasive melancholy.

Pete Murray – Summer at EurekaIt’s gentle and melodic with a pervasive melancholy.

It was the annual Christmas in July celebrations last night and a jolly time was had by all. I know that technically it’s already August. It just happened that not everyone could make weekends in July so we took the liberty of improvising into the following month. Apart from the mountains of delicious food (mmmm…golden […]

It was the annual Christmas in July celebrations last night and a jolly time was had by all. I know that technically it’s already August. It just happened that not everyone could make weekends in July so we took the liberty of improvising into the following month. Apart from the mountains of delicious food (mmmm…golden […]

It was a poor week for television viewing. I think all networks are scheduling rubbish in preparation for saturation Olympics broadcasting for the next two weeks. Also I was out every night except Friday which made TV viewing a rare occurrence.Sunday: The Einstein FactorI love it when there’s a topic of which I have a […]

It was a poor week for television viewing. I think all networks are scheduling rubbish in preparation for saturation Olympics broadcasting for the next two weeks. Also I was out every night except Friday which made TV viewing a rare occurrence.Sunday: The Einstein FactorI love it when there’s a topic of which I have a […]

An article by Frank Devine in The Australian today on The Hollowmen spent some time dissecting what he thinks is wrong. Chiefly, the problem seemed to be that it isn’t Yes Minister/ Yes Prime Minister. He observes that the program is “short of a finished product”, “lacking in character, motivation, conflict, suspense, denouement”, “with no […]

An article by Frank Devine in The Australian today on The Hollowmen spent some time dissecting what he thinks is wrong. Chiefly, the problem seemed to be that it isn’t Yes Minister/ Yes Prime Minister. He observes that the program is “short of a finished product”, “lacking in character, motivation, conflict, suspense, denouement”, “with no […]

Well it’s Friday afternoon and I have actually managed to send my revised article back on time. For all my procastinating over the reference list once I sat down yesterday and made myself attack it, it didn’t really take too long. Isn’t this always the way? Sadly though, the time I have spent on these […]

The Great Bookclub Poetry Experiment was deemed a great success by all those in attendance (Jan and Anne H – we missed you!). Jan had kindly sent along the comic relief in the form of a Tasmanian teatowel with a lovely little ditty about beer, “The bitter end”. Jinx injected just the right amount of […]