The Bloody Newsletter (2)

.. I mean the advent of the Howard and Pauline Hanson years- the conspicuous flaunting of the flag was not a common vice. Overt patriotism as a method of cultural division was not an established d practice Unlike the United States where one of the first thing that a visitor notices is the constant display…

I’ve mentioned the ABC TV show Big Ideas before. I tend to record the various episodes on IQ and review them at my leisure. There’s no particular theme to Big Ideas and I can easily be put off viewing a particular episode just by scanning the synopsis, but sometimes the description is so inscrutable that…

.. I thought, the best. Perhaps this is the fate of all wines being tasted last in a line-up. For those interested it was a Chateau Decru-Beaucaillou – which you have never heard of – and I hadn’t either until then. Whilst you could probably get it now for less than I paid for it…

The Promoters cont. I’d have to say that our version of I’ll Be Gone and the almost as inevitable couple of blues tunes, absolutely stole the show. Just about everybody told us how touched they were, and then asked if we were still performing (!) etc. In so many ways it was a wonderful couple…

..a television for a week we had no idea what it meant. My French is adequate enough to cause confusion, invite strangers to go roller skating or to admire the buttocks of my neighbour’s goat, but collapses entirely when the speed goes above the very slow and deliberate pace which one uses when addressing the…