– With Dr Susan Merrell
As a journalist, I’ve learnt to guard against stereotyping. So on arrival in New York (my first time there) I had not given a thought to the loud, brash New Yorker of legend. I wasn’t expecting to encounter clones of Eddie Murphy, Sylvester Stallone or Jerry Seinfield. Yet, they were all there, en masse. New […]
Sur le pont, d’Avignon,L’on y danser, l’on y danser.Sur le pont d’Avignon,L’on y danser, tout en rond. When one hears the word ‘Avignon’ the folk song Sur le pont d’Avignon would spring immediately to most people’s minds – sometimes it’ll be the only thing – but Avignon is so much more than this song. Avignon […]
I was going to call this article “The Hapless Traveller” until I realised that although he certainly is that, he’s so much more besides. I mean, how does a man who’s normally, calm, reasoned, intelligent, polite and often charming becoming a loud, demanding (but nevertheless totally incompetent) individual as soon as you add an airport […]
Jaw-droppingly beautiful – is what I’d call the lakes in northern Italy and the breathtaking scenery started even before I reached the lakes with the flight over the Alps from Lyon in France to Milan in Italy. The view from the plane was nothing short of spectacular. I’d been told that the lakes were a […]
Me, Shirley Bassey and our school By Susan Merrell To say that Splott School [where I was to attend for my first two years of secondary school] was a school with a bad reputation is an understatement. Before two years prior, when the ‘eleven plus’ exam was abolished, it was a school that the pupils […]
Life has changed in the past year, as much for me as for anyone. In particular, life has become smaller – my world is no longer vast. I cannot travel overseas and we’re even unable to travel interstate – well sometimes. And that’s the rub – there’s no use planning ahead because, if the borders […]
