40 YEARS AGO ON 17TH MARCH 1975 I flew out of Sydney on a Qantas Boeing 707 V-Jet (without as much as a single tear) to take up a posting in New York City that ended up giving me the opportunities to work in US, Asia and Europe for the following twenty years. How exciting …
his year I managed after many misses to kick off the Christmas Season by going to see ‘Lights of Christmas’ projected on the face of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney’s oldest and grandest church, and the largest sandstone structure in the Southern Hemisphere. Now in the right mood, I decide this is the year to …
riend of more than fifty years, John, turns seventy this year. I was pleased to get the chance to acknowledge this milestone in the company of his family at a small dinner in the kitchen of the Apollo Restaurant in Potts Point.
I invite you to see the Photo Album. CLICK HERE riving in the northern areas of the Blue Mountains National Park, the morning sun colours sandstone escarpments that reach up out of valleys like a curtain, while the blackened scars of last year’s bushfires have almost surrendered to a bright green of regeneration. But none …
t pays to have your wits about you when out to lunch with your 98 year-old aunt, and to pre-warn the staff that dear Beth’s deafness causes voice to be very loud and not one to be backward in making her wishes known. Beth greeted the most delicate amuse bouche by asking the poor waitress …