I have stolen this picture from a Facebook group called “Down in Front”. I love it. Some mates — Vandy, Brett, Simon — used to put on cracker parties. This was Roger Sanchez at the Tivoli. What an awesome night.
It’s one of those winter mornings when the slanting sunlight is a treasure. Our morning schedule is thrown sideways by the end of school holidays colliding with the 5am World Cup final, so I drop my partner at work over the Victoria Bridge. We are fortunate to spend a few traffic light changes waiting on […]
Sunsets. The moon rising over the ocean. The sound of little boys giggling. The kindness of strangers. Rock pools. Good health. Reading a well-turned phrase. Serendipity.
A visit to the local secondhand bookstore over the holidays wasn’t enough (bagging Malouf, Lessing, Armanno, Lewycka, Modjeska, Murakami, Astley); we fell into the Lifeline Bookfest on the weekend. I think we came home with about 100 books. The joy was in stumbling into titles that have always been on the “to-read” list: Silent Spring. […]