I'm:
> a recently-retired GST specialist
> a bit of a cook by night and weekend (see the new recipes for Linguini Aglio e Olio and Tiramisu 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 WWII ...
> a keen photographer, with a number of photo-books of fungi in the Westleigh area of Sydney
> reading 'The Long Take' by Robin Robertson, John Forbes 'The Magus', 'The Owl and the Nightingale' by Simon Armitage
> learning about 'The Idea of the Brain - A history' by Matthew Cobb, 'The Concise Human Body Book' by Steve Parker
> viewing 'Goya Drawings' by José Manuel Matilla (based on the 2019 Prado Exhibition), '250 Images You Need to See' (Photobox)
> listening to St Vincent ('All Born Screaming'), Beth Gibbons ('Lives Outgrown), The Smile ("Wall of Eyes")
> drinking Brash Higgins 2022 'CINS' (McLaren Vale Cinsault), Momento Mori 2023 'Fistful of Flowers' (cloudy Vermentino)
> attending 'Night in Versailles' (with the Brandenburg Orchestra and Justin Taylor on harpsichord), Bell Shakespeare's 'King Lear' (with Robert Menzies as Lear)
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff