Ok! Ok! Its just a border!!! It’ll close tomorrow, and I’ve snuck in, back to home, back to work, back to my husband … leaving my children “on the other side” – they are apprehensive, and their worlds are changing quickly – all our worlds are changing quickly – and I am content to know … More waving a bloody big hankie!
Here is time stood still. Sorted, labelled, numbered and dated, bundled in an order determined by distance and purpose – letters between my mother, Jacqueline and my father, Patrick. They span just a little more than a decade – from 1955 until 1966. Yes, they chronicle a love that has endured until today – the beginnings … More tied up with string – a life in letters
us … at an art exhibition opening night in steamy Darwin! Firstly, it was about the rolling pins … beautifully crafted and just lovely enough to gain a place in NTs tribute to its end of school visual artists … there they were – stunningly lit, nicely placed, loudly, proudly shouting out that yes, you … More It was so many things …
Some bits from a speech … published here by request … longer than usual, more local than usual, more personal than usual … but it got some laughs … and that bottle of pink bolly raised $2500.00! … with my finest compliments to the women of Nhulunbuy, North East Arnhemland, Northern Territory, Australia … enduring despite … More “… a little bit dinted ….”
Striding and confident towards the departure gate – back to the books, back to the city, back to the joy of new friends, old friends, unfriends, back to negotiate that unexpected fork in the academic road … totally, completely, utterly unaware of the joy that she brought with her on this quicker than quick overnight … More … And then she was gone …
De rigeur – follow the orange signs to ” brocante” – a French fixture, an institution, – Bargain Hunt, Flog it! and Antiques Roadshow mixed up with a little bit (well, a lot really ….) of Steptoe and Son – wouldn’t be Sunday without it!!! … egged on by the fact that there could be … More French Collections
… I love old halls – school halls, town halls, church halls, theatres, old cinemas … Here, a mash up of thoughts about these places, what they do, how they look, how they protect, and what they can come to mean to the communities they serve …. with inspiration across the decades from Dalby, Queensland, … More those old church halls …
April never ceases to astound me – not just how it looks and smells, but how it feels – new, risky, possible, brimming… I got married in April. I feel my happiest in April. My biggest life journeys all seem to have started in April – perhaps that’s because the airfares entered the justoutofmyreach shoulder … More It’s lilac time …
In the heady days following the curtailment of the refinery operations in this remote (very) northern town, we all felt as if we’d been launched onto the set of some strange, cruel new realit… Source: Nothing like a wedding ….
In the heady days following the curtailment of the refinery operations in this remote (very) northern town, we all felt as if we’d been launched onto the set of some strange, cruel new reality game show – a little bit like “Survivor” but with really sharp teeth and much “closertohome” consequences for real people trying … More Nothing like a wedding ….
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