Nina is a splendid cat. As a kitten she was callously chucked over the fence of the Newcastle Botanical Gardens, rescued, and brought home to my friend by a caring volunteer. She made a beeline for an accommodating lap. Nineteen years later, the lap is still accommodating, and so is the lounge and the bed. […]
Near home
1: The headland after rain For once promised rain actually eventuates. Not a heap, but more than we’ve had for months. I don’t get up till and unheard of 11 am after an all-night read: is this still a peculiar kind of jet-lag? My determination to walk is undiminished, and I enjoy an unaccustomed world […]
Glimpses 1
A bit over a week since I arrived home from Warsaw, and I’m off again, this time to Newcastle to visit a friend who’s been in hospital. Here are a few glimpses from that journey. Goulburn Mittagong Blacktown porch Newcastle lunch
Roadside
Strange how themes emerge and transform. First, I saw this stripey wheelbarrow planter on the Potato Point Road … … and planters became the thing I kept seeing: a hollow trunk overflowing with Sydney rock orchids; a boat in front of an old shed with ghost writing speaking to Bodalla’s past; a mosaic planter beside […]
Protected: Salmagundi 5
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Protected: Walking around home: May
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Protected: Art near home: May
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
