Sunny Side Up

Brought my camera into the SLV yesterday, and caught this play of late afternoon light on the center of the LaTrobe Reading Room's vast ...

Fall is fast descending here; the maple next door, of which I showed you a picture a fortnight ago , is nearly bare, and the oaks have gone ...

From an article in today's Age called " Xenophobia and Memorabilia " by Michael Leunig, cartoonist and conscience of Australia...

I'm up in Shepparton for what might conceivably be the last time - my sister's family takes possession of their new place in Macedon...

On this day in 1915, the Anzacs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) landed at Gallipoli. Eight months later, 8000 had died, but the battl...

Since tomorrow (Wednesday) is Anzac Day, Australia's most solemn national holiday, I decided it was time to go see the Shrine of Remembr...

Went last night to a bona fide soirée (some of you may know that I would love to be able to revive the custom of the soirée, but I'd ne...

I’ve been slowly reading J. Wallace Knight’s The Ritualist , a novel published in 1900 about St. Peter’s, Eastern Hill, and it's just pa...

Say, here's a picture from the SLV collection of what's now called the La Trobe Reading Room in c. 1922. Much darker than in the con...

One of the pleasures of working in the La Trobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria (here's a picture from an article in The A...

Can you spot a green lorikeet in this blooming gum tree? (You can't see much more than its head.) It was one of the few not adding to th...

The first half hour of the radio news this morning was again on the shootings at Virginia Tech. From down here part of what we're trying...

On a day when higher education was, alas, in the world news (I had to turn off the radio when they started to play a Virginia Tech student...

Just found out that I can embed a video directly in the blog! So you can share our delight on finding an active koala in a tree high above o...

Had a ball last night with my nephews - sister and brother in law were out to a rare dinner with friends. I'd noticed a copy of "Si...

It's that time of year again. No, I don't mean Fall (though the maple above is lighting up one of the houses in our block), and I d...

I don't think I've ever shown you what our humble abode looks like from the north. It stretches from the no parking sign to the stre...

After that last rather mongo entry, I'll keep this one brief. I was in St. Kilda yesterday and was able finally to get a picture of this...

After having barely taken note of Lent, I did a sort of penance by binging on Holy Week, at St. Peter's and a number of other houses of ...

Easter joins the list of things in Australia that seem like America stood on its head. Most Australians are not religious, but schools and u...