The view over Lord Howe Island from the cliffline of Mt Midgford. Image Credit: Courtesy Pinetrees Lodge. The hike up Lord Howe Island’s Mt Gower is not for the faint hearted. Widely regarded as one of Australia’s toughest but most spectacular day walks, its 875m summit can only be undertaken with a licensed guide (mostly … Continue reading
by Michael Symons In Adelaide in the 1950s, my grandmother was our family cook, turning out such standards as shepherd’s pie, lamb chops, and apple pie and custard. She cooked tripe (see above) in white sauce as a treat. I liked it. You don’t see tripe (in this case, the lining from a beastie’s second … Continue reading
My husband and I frequently travel to beautiful places outside of our country, but this time we decided to explore the home country Latvia and visited Kemeri bog. It is more than 8000 years old and is one of the largest moss bogs on the Latvian cost. This place has become increasingly popular in the … Continue reading
Alice Mizrachi/Ginko Press by Steven Heller. Defiant, farcical, profane: These are the words that come to mind when attempting to describe the street art that photographer Yoav Litvin has chronicled on the streets of New York for the past few years. Semi-sanctioned, quasi-legal, or downright illegal, the works that draw Litvin’s eye—those created by alternative … Continue reading
Image Credit: Photograph by Peter Plowman. Our old mate comrade Victor Potticary is now a resident at Calvary Flora McDonald Nursing Community, Cowandilla. Looking at this photo taken by Comrade Peter Plowman one may think that Vic loves arts and crafts. I can assure you that he doesn’t. But if it was a book by … Continue reading
In 1934 Ernest Hemingway wrote down a list of two short stories and 14 books and handed it to a young out-of-work writer Arnold Samuelson (many of the texts you can find in the Open Culture collection of Free eBooks): “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane Madame Bovary by … Continue reading
