Also graceless, this attempt to get airborne was a success. With luck, the lookalike will prove less successful!
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To which Tony Schwartz responds:
I fully expected him to attack me, because that is what he does…But I’m much more worried about his becoming president than I am about anything he might try to do to me.
Comments closedI put lipstick on a pig. I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is. I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilisation…
Comments closedAll but one of this post’s photos were taken on a single midwinter day. This is when relatively few flowers bloom…but it is prime time for Pterostylis – the orchid genus more commonly known as Greenhoods.
One CommentDifferent wines have very different “Goldilocks zones”. Many Australians greatly reduce their drinking pleasure by ignoring this fact – too often, we serve our reds too hot and our whites too cold.
Comments closedAll but one of the photos in this post were taken yesterday on a brief, late afternoon walk around our local lake. It is just a few minutes’ drive – or less than an hour’s walk – from the heart of Perth’s CBD.
Comments closedWe all know what “getting our country back” means. It’s snorting a line of the most pernicious and debilitating Little English drug, nostalgia. The warm, crumbly, honey-coloured, collective “yesterday” with its fond belief that everything was better back then, that Britain (England, really) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty.
Comments closedNot yet on many visitors’ “radar” is Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens’ very different but equally rewarding “other half”, 45 kilometres southeast of the CBD.
Comments closedAn under-appreciated fact: many of Australia’s most cellar-worthy wines are whites. Even the happy few who are not blind to the astonishingly-affordable delights offered by our aged Rieslings and Semillons are all too often blind to prime sources in regions other than, respectively, Clare and the Hunter Valley.
Comments closedThanks to Sir Peter Jackson, many millions more human eyes have looked at this active volcano than have human feet walked anywhere near it. Most who “know” it via The Lord of the Rings trilogy do not even know its real name.
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