You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both.
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4.39 pm, Thursday 19 July 2018, southwest edge of Lake Monger.
One CommentHere are two albums you should hear.
They offer no tediously-roosterish displays of “technique”.
Neither are they lamely “hip”, or tepidly “smooth”.
Both are uncommonly beautiful.
Crucial to their success is something rarely mentioned by reviewers of “jazz” releases: real friendships, sustained over many years.
One CommentToday in Perth was one of this city’s not at all rare, uncanny winter days – the kind which turns visitors into immigrants.
Comments closed“Languid”, “calm”, “quiet”, “gentle”…could such words ever properly describe a market, let alone a butcher’s shop within one?
They did in fact fit our experience of the covered market in Antsirabe, late on the morning of 12 May 2018.
One CommentChapter Two is international, and includes a musical bonus – audio of two of my favourite rain songs. (one of them is an “unissued” version)
Comments closedI live in a sundrenched metropolis. Today has been gloriously wild, intermittently very wet, ever-changing, mostly cool.
Many fellow residents of Perth regard such days as “miserable” or “horrible”, to be endured, not enjoyed…and not at all photogenic.
They are wrong/blind; dry, warm sunny days are not the only “good” kind!
Comments closedNearly half of the world’s circa 200 species of chameleon live only in Madagascar, including the most massive – Parson’s chameleon, Calumma parsoni.
Its spectacular ability to change colour is a means of communication rather than camouflage.
Comments closedRing-tailed lemurs (pictured above, in Anja National Park) are its emblematic animal.
Parson’s chameleon (pictured below, near Ranomafana) is the world’s biggest chameleon.
Comments closedWe are in France for our first time.
However, this bit of France is very much closer to Madagascar than to Paris!
Reunion is a spectacular volcanic island; its (and the entire Indian Ocean’s) highest peak soars more than 3,000 metres above the sea…and rather more than half of the whole mountain is below the sea’s surface.
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