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 'Breasts and Eggs'' by Mieko Kamakami, 'Tokyo Vice' by Jake Adelstein, 'Sympathy Tower Tokyo' by Rie Qudan (translated by Jesse Kirkwood), 'Butter' by Asako Yuzuki, 'Starve Acre' by Andrew Michael Hurley
> 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, "Lucian Freud" by Martin Gayford
> viewing (photographs) '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 AGNSW exhibition: "Ron Mueck: Encounter", the Malthouse Theatre, "Romeo & Juliet" by the Sydney Theatre Company (at the Opera House)
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff