Dr Phillip Law died yesterday, at the age of 97, in Melbourne. I had known him since 1999, when I first started working on the arrangement and description of his records at his home in Canterbury. I should write more about this, but right now I’d just like to remember him.
When he moved from Canterbury [...]
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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 [...]
7 February 2009
I walked past Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister, in the Exhibition Gardens this morning (Monday, 9 February 2009), shortly after 7am, on my way to work. He was speaking to a news crew, with the backdrop of the parched gardens behind him, a false Autumn of dead leaves shed from heat stressed trees lying at [...]
Ripped off, screwed, what to do
All the young people, it seems, are leaving Mauritius (or want to), if they can. Sweeping statement I know. That is the anecdotal evidence we hear, based on the phone calls we receive here in Australia, desperately seeking advice. But what is here for them?
A case in point. A husband and wife newly arrived in [...]