Helen Morgan - Snapperup of unconsidered trifles

March, 2007 archive

Mauritians step into a new era

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Interesting what you lose in context between the paper world of the newspaper and the online. This morning’s Melbourne Age newspaper reported on yesterday’s Mauritian and Rodriguan La Faya Festival, held at the Immigration Museum - Mauritians step into a new era. (Last Monday, 12 March, was Mauritius’s national day, celebrating independence from Britain.)
In the […]

Reviewed with a sense of humour

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

I hadn’t looked for any more reviews of Blue Mauritius after the appearance of Susan Skelly’s ‘Stamp & Deliver: The Journey of the Blue Mauritius from mail to million-dollar must-have is a saga of collectors, curios and cheats’ in The Bulletin (6 February 2007, p.68). The subsequent small reviews in Brisbane’s Courier Mail and the […]