Helen Morgan - Snapperup of unconsidered trifles

My photographs of the Berlin Wall, taken in 1989, are amongst the most regularly viewed in my Flickr photostream. Understandable in the lead up to the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall on 9 November this year.
Some of them are mine and a few are a fellow traveller’s, collected by me at the [...]

What constitutes a good memento of travel?
Kate Holden recently reflected on this in The Age (A2, 20 October 2007, p.3), noting that you can buy Vegemite and Tim Tams in London (so no point bearing these as gifts) and you can get most things in Australia, so what then is worth bringing home as a [...]

The only real writing I’ve managed all year is this article on the National Library of Australia’s Mauritius Collection, for the monthly journal National Library of Australia News. It’s wonderful to see the Library’s beautiful painting of a dodo gracing the July issue’s cover, highlighting the rich holdings relating to Mauritius in their collection. I [...]

The oldest boat still extant in Australia recently returned to its original home, Tasmania. It had been languishing in a boatyard in New South Wales. A Tasmanian maritime expert confirmed the boat as the Admiral, built of huon pine in 1865 and originally used to ferry dignitaries across the Derwent River in Hobart. The boat [...]