My hair has been high maintenance as long as I can remember. Born with dark, curly/frizzy fine hair but heaps of it, in a tropical location gravity loses badly to the atmospheric humidity that turns it into an afro – which looks quite bizarre with my very fair skin. Luckily, over the years, technology has […]
There’s usually a time, late in Christmas holidays spent at home in Sydney, when we try to get away for a few days. In recent years it’s been a shopping trip to Melbourne or a beach holiday on the Gold Coast. It’s always difficult because, being the school holidays, our last-minute booking means the more […]
Disclaimer: I am no fan of anything remotely to do with Donald Trump. I find him, his style, his morals…repugnant. Donald Trump: I find him, his style, his morals…repugnant…[But] However, does that mean that I should be able to, or am entitled to silence the elected President of the United States of America? Does Mark […]
A harbourside seat. It’s midnight. To all my readers: a very happy new year.
As we cautiously slide into 2021, happy to leave behind a disastrous year, I am aware that, for some of us, we are leaving loved ones behind there too. What’s more, Covid-19 has meant that we have been unable to mourn their passing as we would have liked. However, most have done their best to […]
Milton Park is a country house/hotel in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales (Australia) near Bowral – just a 90-minute trip from Sydney’s CBD. Easily accessible from the hustle and bustle, it is a tranquil world away. Originally the country estate of the Hordern family of Sydney retailing fame, the homestead… “…reveals […]