Never mind the why and wherefore

* The merit of discovery has too often been stained with avarice, cruelty, and fanaticism; and the intercourse of nations has produced the communication of disease and prejudice. A singular exception is due to the virtue of our own times … Continue reading →

Taken over from here. “The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen films you’ve seen that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen films you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.” Admittedly, I … Continue reading →

1] Chifley’s musical taste and enthusiasm, for instance, were for light opera and musical revues. On one occasion Coombs came into his office to find him humming a Gilbert and Sullivan tune. “How is it, Doc,” he asked, “that nobody … Continue reading →

There are such towns, which, and even if willing, one can’t find words for, enough information: the streets, the market, the presbytery building - and there’s only one event: that’s the station. Daily, unfailing, the punctual train comes (o, the … Continue reading →

Various recent comments to the effect that putative changes mooted concerning Australia’s current mix of revenue arrangements with respect to the Mining sector grossly threaten its Sovereign Risk standing strike me as hyperbolic and potentially misinformed. Over at least the … Continue reading →

Can you keep a secret? During St Andrew’s Cathedral School’s term-time, their choir and congregation joins for Morning Prayer on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8:00 AM, and Evening Prayer each Thursday at 5:30 PM, the latter of which I’ve somehow … Continue reading →

My maternal grandfather gave me today a large bunch of Listener magazines, mainly dating from the early 1950s. I have to say that I’m quite impressed with their general quality and might care to transcribe a few articles therefrom for … Continue reading →