Inspiration for a Multi-Cultural Community
At a local festival street parade held recently, my husband’s colleague was disappointed at the lack of representation by her own section of the community, the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders. She decided to try and do something about this and wrote to the Elders and other leaders of her community with an invitation to […]
The Lake House
Movie starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock. An interesting house, an interesting story. Two people correspond through a magic letterbox that carries their letters through time, at the Lake House – a beautiful glass house built on the edge of a lake by the architect father of Reeves character Alex Wyler. Bullock plays Dr Kate Forster […]
Bollywood Boulevarde
Bollywood is the name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. The name is a play on the words Bombay (former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the US film industry centre. Bollywood music or filmi (from Hindi, meaning “of films”) is an essential element of the movies. A Bollywood movie without […]
Fridge on the Blink
Last week our refrigerator started making funny sounds and everything inside went into meltdown. We were pretty dismayed at this, since the fridge is only three years old. After transferring everything to our old fridge (which we dragged over from the shed last Christmas – it’s lived on the back porch ever since) we phoned […]
Baby No. 2 for Les
Our friend Lesley is expecting her second baby in December – a boy. She already has a beautiful baby girl, Ariane.
The Works of William Shakespeare (by chicks)
Jo and I went to see a live performance by the Harvest Rain theatre company yesterday. So glad we did, we were not disappointed by the performance despite Jo feeling a bit under the weather with a tummy bug. From the moment we took our front row seats in the audience, it was like stepping […]