I'm:
> a retired GST specialist
> a bit of a cook by night and weekend (see the new recipes for Quick Crispy Chilli Oil, 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)
> learning about 'The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer' by Siddhartha Mukherjee
> 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, 'Nolan's Africa' by Andrew Turley
> viewing (photographs) 'Paris Nocturne' by Brassaï, 'Valparaiso' by Sergio Larrain, 'How to Disappear' by Colin Greenwood
> listening to Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke 'Tall Tales'
> attending the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Lorenzo Coppola on a weird baroque clarinet and Kristian Bezuidenhout on forte piano playing Mozart concertos), Sydney Dance Company ('Somos'), Steve Coogan in 'Dr Strangelove', Tall Tales (a film based on the album by Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke) by Jonathan Zawada, Anohni and the Johnsons ('Mourning The Great Barrier Reef')
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff