I'm:
> a retired GST specialist
> a bit of a cook by night and weekend (see the new recipes for Red Wine Sauce, Ragu and Air Fryer Mini-Muffins on the Recipes page!)
> a long time (amateur) poet, with 4 self-published collections, working on-and-off on a version of the 'Little Illiad' (set after the action in the 'Aethiopis') which seems to now include episodes from by Grandfather's experiences in WWII ...
> a keen photographer, with a number of photo-books of fungi in the Westleigh area of Sydney
> reading 'Eleven Percent: A Novel'' by Maren Uthaug (translated from the Danish original by Caroline Waight), Richmond Lattimore's translation of 'The Odyssey'
> learning about 'The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck' by David Spiegelhalter
> viewing (visual art) 'Wild Thing: A life of Paul Gauguin' by Sur Prideaux, 'Human Presence', a catalogue of the recent Francis Bacon exhibition at the UK National Portrait Gallery, the catalogue from the "French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" exhibition, "Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" by Andreas Marks
> viewing (photographs) 'Paris Nocturne' by Brassaï, 'Valparaiso' by Sergio Larrain, 'How to Disappear' by Colin Greenwood
> listening to Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke 'Tall Tales', Anne Akiko Myers "Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No.1, 'Echorus'"
> attending the NGV exhibition: "French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston", the Malthouse Theatre, "Troy"
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff