http://www.helenmorgan.net snapperup of unconsidered trifles Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:05:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh dear, oh dear. I have twice this week been asked (at my gym and another weekly activity I participate in) to keep my tea bag labels/tags for a research project which will, upon receipt of certain (undefined) numbers of tea bag tags, donate wheelchairs to people who need them. Is ... http://www.helenmorgan.net/2011/05/26/tea-bags-and-wheelchairs/ 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 ... http://www.helenmorgan.net/2010/06/28/the-man-and-the-woman-and-the-edison-phonograph/ 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 ... http://www.helenmorgan.net/2010/03/01/vale-phillip-law/