The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s First Church of Otago, in New Zealand. This landmark in Dunedin is one of the most impressive of New Zealand’s 19th century churches, and was built to serve the largely Presbyterian citizens of the Scottish-settled city. It dominates Dunedin, and can be…
I was always such a movie buff – as a kid, I clearly remember the time spent at the Randwick Odeon, or the Randwick Ritz, watching films like Doctor Who and the Daleks, and later Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 (two Doctor Who movies that are clearly ‘non canon’ for Whovians – but which, as a kid, I thoroughly enjoyed.)…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches Today, it’s a sweet little church, call Saint James at Avebury. I’m an Australian. We’ve only had European settlement (and hence, permanent structures) here for about 230 years. So to find a little church, in a little village, that has been standing for more than a…
Today should see the publication of the third episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Unfortunately, I’m on holidays in Singapore and Vietnam over the next three weeks – and my recording equipment didn’t even survive the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches.. Today, we are in England – at Salisbury Cathedral. This church is more than 750 years old, and is one of the best remaining examples of Early English Gothic architecture. It’s only about 15km from what may have been an earlier religious…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s the Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This is the oldest cathedral in the Americas – begun just 20 years after Christopher Columbus stumbled across the West Indies, while searching for Japan. This shot…
I’ve been in Radio long enough to remember the slow-motion train-crash that was AM Stereo – and I have to say, DAB or Digital Audio Broadcasting shows all the signs of being deja vu all over again. To explain: for 50 years, Australian broadcast radio was all AM, or Amplitude Modulation. Stations had whopping great…
I’ve been listening to David Bowie’s new album, Blackstar over the past couple of days, and I have to say – it’s like nothing he’s done for years. Bowie’s one of those unique creatures, who can keep reinventing himself. This current album’s been described as bleakly noir, and inaccessible, and evocative, and introspective. But its…
Here’s the second episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Enjoy!
I mentioned earlier that we cremated my 91 year old mother today. Here’s the eulogy that I wrote, to help celebrate her life. _________________________ Sacrifice. It’s an old fashioned concept, but in a lot of ways Marj Cairns (mum to the four of us) epitomised sacrifice. Her whole life she was one of those people…
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