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Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. savings purchasing attractive, over-priced land in nice locations and growing grapes. Sometimes even making wine. Many years ago I helped some dear friends in one of these quixotic adventures, and it was very hard work, though in the end they did make some more than credible wine. Their happy progress was…

..winner. I hoped it would get better. But it didn’t. Whatever Weiwei turned his hand was boring. Uninspiring. Bloated. Very big and very pointless. I had gone to the National Gallery of Victoria to see the latest blockbuster of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei. I went with some trepidation as, whilst I think that Warhol…

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.. Paris and Spain, to which end Dick purchased the latest in trendy back packs, which he proudly showed me on the night I visited them recently in Warrandyte. (See Dick’s Toolbox). I said it looked very fine, but one should be careful when wielding such an item in polite society, and told him this…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. moderately galling to find something one had thrown out as worthless selling for a handsome price at such a market. Or not. I don’t know – presuming I have the cash to squander I have the same dilemma at markets as I do at shopping malls, perhaps even worse…