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 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 Long Take' by Robin Robertson, John Forbes 'The Magus', 'The Hotel New Hampshire' by John Irving, 'Bliss' by Peter Carey
> learning about 'The Idea of the Brain - A history' by Matthew Cobb, 'The Concise Human Body Book' by Steve Parker, 'The Gene: An Intimate History' and 'The Song of the Cell' by Siddhartha Mukherjee
> viewing (visual art) 'Goya Drawings' by José Manuel Matilla (based on the 2019 Prado Exhibition), William Blake's illustrations of Dante's 'Comedy', 'Une Semaine de Bonté' ('A week of Kindness') by Max Ernst
> viewing (photographs) '250 Images You Need to See' (Photobox), 'A Year in Photography' (Magnum Archive), 'Paris Nocturne' by Brassaï
> listening to Rosie Lowe ('Lover, Other'), The Smile ("Cutouts"), Nick Cave ('Wild God')
> drinking Brash Higgins 2022 'NDV' (McLaren Vale Nero D'Avola), Momento Mori 2023 'Fistful of Flowers' (cloudy Vermentino)
> attending Bell Shakespeare's 'King Lear' (with Robert Menzies as Lear), 'Silence & Rapture' (with the Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Chamber Orchestra), 'Time Machine - Hiroshi Sugimoto' at the MCA Sydney, 'Gauguin’s World' at the NGA, 'Discovering Ancient Egypt' at the National Museum in Canberra, 'Handel Arias' (Brandenburg Orchestra)
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff