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 'Held' by Anne Michaels, 'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey
> 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) '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
> viewing (photographs) '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), Bondar 2022 Sagrantino
> attending 'Everything' (Thom Yorke at the Opera House Forecourt), 'Mozart's Jupiter' (Brandenburg Orchestra), 'Eric Idle - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, Live!' (State Theatre)
... and I'll update this site when something new or interesting is available.
Jeff