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 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye' by AS Byatt, 'The Arabian Nights: A Companion' by Robert Irwin
> learning about '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 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'
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff