Art and Abart

Airport I had an hour longer than expected at Melbourne airport on my way home. Staff were hurriedly lining us up to board the plane b...

Kasper Holten Set his Meistersinger in a gentleman's club, and it works. The set for this production is a piece of genius, never intrudi...

After a few days in noisy city streets, how relaxing to be walking along woodland paths listening to the bees buzzing in the trees. Or w...

Cakes at Brunetti Cafe in Lygon Street Real actually, not unreal. 

A book, all I wanted was a book. I set off down a Melbourne street to find a bookshop, followed some schoolkids into an alley and found my...

Sydney is breaking heat records with 37.5C today . Last night was one of those nights where you toss and turn, then finally at 2am you get u...

Grabbing on and holding tight Puddles. After such a long dry.

Qantas pilots discuss matters arising Waiting at Brisbane airport to come back to Sydney after Peter Grimes,  I visited the Watermark Bo...

Brisbane is a city for cars, noisy racing smelly cars. The roar of cars is everywhere, sometimes loud, sometimes a dull roar.  Two days here...

How disappointing it must be for an artist to travel half way around the world to sing, then fall ill. That happened to Stuart Skelton this ...

The recent news that honey is not always honey reminded me of some South American olive oil I bought from a well known purveyor of organic f...

Bach's Goldberg Variations played by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a concert I heard live then watched several times online. This ...

It isn't often at a concert that you discover you are sitting next to someone whose blog you follow. The Scottish (not English, t...

They say in business that if you under-promise and over-deliver your clientele will keep coming back. I was reminded of this today when orde...

I don't live near a large shopping center so when my old Sunbeam coffee machine needed replacing I had to drive some way. I had done a b...

Today I made the best bread loaf ever. It was a surprise as the bread was an experiment. I had added the rest of my uneaten porridge to the...

Last weekend I was captivated by two very different musicians.  Simon O'Neill, the New Zealand tenor was one. He is one of those rare...

Interior with chair and hat I am taking an art class at the local art Centre, partly to connect with a few more members of the community...

Knitted wool jumper - old now, but warm I am not keen on the idea of electric blankets, that is, I not keen on the idea of lying on an ...

Riveting. That is the word for Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva's performance in Sydney last week. Not showy, not flamboyant, but so pe...