Dear reader, I am a gardener. I make gardens for residential clients not landscapes. I expect some interaction between the client and the garden. Many, many people tell me they don’t want to spend time in their gardens for maintenance. So, let me explain something to you: the first thing to consider when you make your own garden is where...

I would like to draw your attention dear reader to pieces of music which have attracted me recently. They are sometimes electronic, evocative, at times mournful but beautiful. See if you agree. They include (found on YouTube), ‘Says’ by Nils Frahn, ‘November’ by Max Richter, ‘Only the Winds’ by Olafur Arnalds, ‘Struggle for Pleasure’ by Wim Mertens and ‘Ab Ovo’...

Dear reader, have you been fortunate to have children to see them grow, to see them leave home and find their way in life? Looking back, did that take long? With the final third of your lives to follow. Life is so brief, and we are such specks in space that the consideration of eternity becomes worthwhile. We can, in...

The sound of rain on pavement, breeze lifting muslin drapes and disarranging curls of hair, birds calling in the morning sun, cicadas en masse in the heat of the day, avenues...

Only recently have I found a new Bach piece, BWV 140¹, a cantata, which renews my admiration for his inventiveness. Childlike, it begins with a divisive cantus firmus which...

Art from the Warlayirti community of Balgo Hills WA was until recently hung in the corridor between the main body of the Art Gallery of South Australia and its restaurant/café...

I was recently given a shaving kit¹; badger bristle shaving brush, classic butterfly wing double sided razor and beautifully fragrant...