No Entry
No entry Many years ago, I was working for a membership organisation, and we had agreed to bring out a speaker from the UK. He [...]
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03, 2026
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02, 2026
Silk Roads
Silk Roads When I was around seven years old, my friend Andrew told me about his father’s plan. Back then, more than seventy years [...]
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12, 2025
Cruising
Cruising In an age when words take on increasingly diverse meanings, it can be challenging to make the nature of your intended topic clear. [...]
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11, 2025
St Martins Cathedral Utrecht
St Martin’s Cathedral Utrecht Major cities across Europe become packed in the summer months. It’s not just Paris, Rome and Berlin: a day in [...]
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11, 2025
Barges
Barges When I was at school, I discovered and loved Cargoes, a poem by John Masefield: Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home [...]
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10, 2025
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia Seeing a great building is a fascinating experience. By a great building, in this case I mean one that is historic (there [...]
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10, 2025
Aigai
Aigai We were in the second half of our cruise, travelling down the eastern coast of Greece, when the ship stopped at Thessaloniki. As [...]
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10, 2025
Caravaggio
Caravaggio Why do we become especially focussed on some artists or, to be more precise, on some works of art? There is often no [...]
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04, 2025
The Alchemist
DD69 - The Alchemist There is a vast literature devoted to the business of ‘finding yourself’. One way is to overcome some demanding tests, [...]
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04, 2024
What’s Going On?
What’s Going on? Browsing in the library is a dangerous pastime. I exercise this foolish endeavour in the Dickson Public Library in Canberra. Like [...]
