Hardly a bargain, and not quite the raw prawn – but the raw scampi at Icebergs Dining Room overlooking Bondi Beach today was superb! My old friend, Fr Frank Scheele from Berlin,had but one request from the menu, Tuna Tartare, a delight he had not forgotten from lunch on his last visit to Australia – …
My resolve to refrain from vino and sugar has nothing to do with Lent. My self denial is focussed solely on making a sagging body (more) beautiful. Enter my old friend, Father Frank straight from Berlin. Like the forbidden fruit, he unveils a tin with a towering Baumkuchen – a sweet German dessert cake, as …
Grand-nephew Jude will be two years-old in a couple of weeks. And earlier this week Bill and Mindy took the little boy for his first day in pre-school. We hear so often about tears on these occasions, and last Monday was no exception. Indeed tears were shed. The funny thing is that Jude was as …
Quite by accident, I came across a new software for publishing my ‘Books’. (These were the old-fashioned tomes I used to write at the end of a big trip, and email to you.) I would do this thinking that all the world (or at least my close friends) were reading and enjoying them. However, one …
I need more than a fair resolve to publish a photo of myself looking like this! Aaarghh! But I’ve been brave enough to do so, as an added motivation to stick with an exercise regimen that I’ve signed up for, from tomorrow! I have 2½ months before I take off again, and I am …