Back in the nineties, I had a friend who in turn had a CD collection that cost him $27,000. He played me tracks from Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Hollywood, which parodied tunes and made fun of stars. Ten years later, JJ took me to see the show Forbidden Broadway in an off-Broadway theatre. The creator,…
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Nov
I hadn’t been to Araluen Botanic Park, on the outskirts of Perth, since my twenty-eighth birthday. That must have been about ten years ago.* I went back yesterday afternoon to see the Roleystone Theatre perform The Taming of the Shrew. *May not be true
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Nov
I think JJ and I (in 2007) took the ferry to Staten Island so I could say I’d been there, and indeed to all five of New York City’s boroughs. Or maybe it was to take a picture of this: I’m less interested now in travelling to tick a box or complete a set. It’s…
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Nov
I’m at Brasserie Petanque, Buenos Aires, in 2007, with my Beef Bourguignon: Even better was Lomo Roll Dashi, a Japanese-Argentine dish, from the Dashi chain of sushi restaurants. Thinly sliced moist filleted beef from the Pampas, wrapped around spinach, oozing melted cheese, blended with mushroom, rice and onion. I don’t know why it was taken…
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Oct
One feature of growing up in the late seventies and early eighties was the Sunday night serial on the ABC, which we used to watch together as a family. We, the Accused was about the unhappily married school teacher in the 1920s who kills his nasty wife and runs off with a younger woman. For…
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Oct
I come from a family with a long line of green thumbs. My thumbs are more of the dead variety. Palm trees can survive in deserts, but not in my garden. My excuse is that I was travelling a lot, and didn’t have time to do mundane things like tend to plants. But now I…
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Oct
York has views from Mount Brown … … and an historic Town Hall … … but there was something simple, joyful and innocent about the flying fox near the river. The more I travel, the less I want to see the tourist sites and the more I want to have fun with friends and the…
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Oct
I am a little ashamed that I’d been two New York, USA, twice since my previous trip to York, WA. It had been ten years between trips to York, WA. It’ll be a lot less time until my next visit, partly because of some wonderful friends, and partly because of this bookshop. Kitty Kelley, Julie…
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Oct
