Art and Abart

Self protection is the name of the game at the moment and I find concentrating on projects instead of following the news helps a lot.  At th...

I'm am used to being alone and I enjoy my own company but in these times of Covid19 I am sometimes overcome by feelings of trepidation. ...

Little did I guess what joy the little rose bush I planted in my small garden (previously just grass) in February would bring in March. I ha...

In the interest of self preservation I am trying to avoid watching the news.  I find it too distressing watching the incompetence. It is har...

This morning I woke feeling incredibly stressed after a second wakeful night. Until now I seem to have been able to react calmly to this cri...

A clothes store sends me emails with special offers which I sometimes look at but usually delete unopened. Today when I saw the email it mad...

A 15 year old of my acquaintance, striving to loosen the harness, is driving his parents crazy in the process, particularly at a time when w...

My heart goes out to those with rebellious teen-agers, kids kicking over the traces but now forced to stay home (or soon will be) with famil...

I grew up on a farm in New Zealand. When we went to town my mother always wore a pair of gloves. Summer or winter, always gloves. It was bec...

I've been thinking of setting up a blog to track Coronavirus but things are moving so very quickly that it is hard to keep up. Sydney is...

Beethoven is everywhere this year and I have no complaints at all. I can listen to Beethoven any time, anywhere. Today I heard Beethoven...

After months of fires, the East Coast of Australia now has floods. During the fires the Australian Broadcasting Service (ABC) did a wonderfu...

You would think by  2020 the supermarkets would have worked out a way to sell things without packaging, especially organic veges, which are ...

I blog from bushfire surrounded Sydney where there was a big fireworks display last night, despite protests. It could have been a watershed....

My new abode has so many bars on the back windows you'd think you were incarcerated. I will remove them when I have time since we have e...

After months of visiting open houses I finally have a new home. I move in next Wednesday. There has been a pause in blog posts but that do...

Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims i s not your usual opera with a plot (however absurd) and beginning, middle and end. Instead it is a spoof ...

Teapot, little jug and Clivia flowers My teapot painting is finished. The teapot is a design called Amapola from the German porcelain fi...

I have hardly posted here over the last two months because my energies have been directed toward finding somewhere permanent to live. More o...