A song performed and filmed at the National Folk Festival, Canberra, April 2010. My boss, Gavan McCarthy, plays the double bass in it, and sent the link around at work. It moved me, ergo, I share.
You can read more about Fanny Cochrane Smith here and listen to her singing, recorded in 1903 here – “the [...]
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The Man and the Woman and the Edison Phonograph
From memory: Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin
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 [...]
The Road to Kinglake
We went to the St Andrews’ Community Market for our long weekend excursion last Saturday, early in the morning, driving through the rolling hills of Eltham, Research (I should live in a place called Research) and Kangaroo Ground.
I remember now the thrill I felt on seeing place names on the green road signs familiar to [...]
Charts past
I have a good visual memory, which has recently been triggered by looking over my colleague’s shoulder as he does computer geewhizzery using Gvim (‘an extended version of the Unix VI text editor with syntax highlighting’). It is the differently coloured text that swims against the black background that’s done it.
I learnt to read at [...]