every beginning is a consequence, every beginning ends something - paul valery
picked this one up at a rather cool dinner party, the host Hugh had a huge grasstree stamen tied to the deck. it was really neat and a little phallic. the food and conversation were both good, all about art and poetry and rural […]

tonight after dinner we were discussing our son’s (the 2 oldest boys) passion for cricket and we joinly decided to set up a blog for them. guess what it’s going to be called. idontlikecricket.com

Among the many blessings of being a painter, is the wonderful notion of being part of a long tradition. Our modern society stands on the shoulders of “giants”, and when picking up a brush you realise that you are by no means the first and probably not the last to do so. However this long […]

Tim “Four Hour Work Week” Ferris is at it again pushing the envelope that is! If you haven’t heard of Tim or his book “Four Hour Work Week” or 4HWW to the devotee you must have been hiding under a log or swinging in a hammock at Bora Bora because you don’t need to read […]

it’s not often that you get to be someone else! given the tumultuous life jackson pollock lead, chances are the queue for the “being jackson pollock experience” may not be long. however the question remains if you could be jackson pollock for 5 mins would you? i was! prosthetically at least, you can too. here’s […]

kim wescott (here and here) once wrote that a single horizontal line on a page is a landscape (apologies kim for paraphrasing).
hunderwasser ( here )said that the horizontal surface is the space of nature. because on a horizontal surface leaves, seeds, water and other natural products will gather and then you will have life. (paraphrasing […]

the more i learn about biodiversity, the more amazed i become and the richer my appreciation of the natural world becomes.
biodiversity is not a reductionist concept, a single element to be considered in isolation but a complex web of organisms and ecosystems providing benefit and service to one another delicately balanced each other in […]

for a few years now my dear friend Jodie has been on a mission. she got sick of paying a fortune for skincare products that let’s face it didn’t have a whole lot of benefit. now after a couple of years of research she has launched her first products online. check out her website for […]

new media is a gift to those of us lucky enough to have access to the internet. however “of whom much is given, much is expected”. the gift of youtube is being squandered and as media convergence continues content, trends and movement in new media will influence more and more traditional media.

as a consumer and […]

i have, err, met someone. no not like that, i am in a very happy relationship, thanks very much.
no, someone, you know the type. their company is rather entertaining. but you are not sure whether to introduce them to your mother in case they say something rude.
well bloggrrl is one such beasty.
she has written some […]