Art and Abart

Jim Cooper has just won the Portage Prize, the premier ceramics prize in New Zealand. Congratulations Jim! Jim Cooper (photo from the Ota...

Watching the East Coast of America with bated breath. So where are the US election voices talking about climate change?

In August shortly before leaving home for 5 weeks I created a no-dig garden (newspaper laid on the grass covered by some compost and blood a...

What is it about fresh flowers that is so captivating? Some artificial flowers are so realistic nowadays that you have to touch them to see ...

The handle of the bedroom door fell off soon after I moved into this house nearly two years ago and I have been meaning to get new handles e...

My computer died two months ago, not sudden death but in stages. The first warning that something was seriously wrong was the 'blue scre...

Run, jump, chase the seagulls, splash. There is nothing quite like the beach.

On 11 November the NSW Wagner Society is having a Christmas party at the Mosman Art Gallery and their poster features a sketch of Lisa Harpe...

In Umina at Ruby's Cafe and Books . Good coffee, lots of books (you can read them there or take them with you) and engaging staff. A go...

From the book I am currently reading: "The older I get the less I know. When I was younger I thought my knowledge would increase with...

On Sunday afternoon local folk musician met at Patonga Pub. Its a good venue to have a play-along. Tom Flood plays Folk musicians at...

Yesterday afternoon students of the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music played at Kariong Eco Garden. They played Vivaldi's Spring a...

When I left home late in August I left my large painting Siegmund (portrait of the wonderful New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill) sitting o...

For so long now women in Australia have been watching the misogynist political discourse in the Australian Parliament with mortification. No...

"In shopping-mall design, the Gruen transfer is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall and, surrounded by an intentionally ...

Australian Commerce: Some big milk producers start adding permeate (cheap waste product from cheese making) to milk to stretch it; then the ...

If you have jetlag and hour makes a difference. Luckily for me NSW changed to daylight savings last weekend so now I wake at 5:30 instead of...

It is nice to be back in a place that makes the strong bitter coffee that I prefer but I gulped when I had to pay nearly eight dollars for a...

It is spring on this side of the globe.  It has been a dry September and the grass on  the road side verges is brown but all the trees are f...

There have been some changes here over the month I was gone. Some roads have been re-tar sealed, including the road under the large Eucalypt...