I'm:
> a recently-retired GST specialist
> a bit of a cook by night and weekend (see the new recipe for Quick Crispy Cilli Oil 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 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye' by AS Byatt, 'The Arabian Nights: A Companion' by Robert Irwin
> learning about 'The Concise Human Body Book' by Steve Parker, 'The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer' by Siddhartha Mukherjee
> viewing (visual art) 'Magritte' at the AGNSW, 'Mark Rothko: Every Picture Tells a Story', a catalogue of the retrospective at the FLV in Paris earlier this year, '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
> viewing (photographs) 'Paris Nocturne' by Brassaï, 'Valparaiso' by Sergio Larrain, 'How to Disappear' by Colin Greenwood
> listening to Michael Kiwanuka ('Small Changes'), The Smile ("Cutouts"), Mary Halvorson ('Cloudward'), John Glacier ('Like a Ribbon')
> attending Penn & Teller (at the Opera House), 'MACBETH' (with David Tennant & Cush Jumbo), the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Lorenzo Coppola on a weird baroque clarinet and Kristian Bezuidenhout on forte piano playing Mozart concertos), Sydney Dance Company ('Somos')
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff