Sunday was a glorious day. We had planned to climb Worcester Beacon that day but didn’t fancy tangling with the thousands of VW combi vans converging at Malvern Three Counties camping ground for BusFest. Instead, we went for a five mile ramble around our local countryside. Conveniently, the Lord Nelson pub was situated mid-route. Here […]
Out & About
Salvage/Selvedge Exhibition
Salvage/Selvedge is a fundraising project for the School of St Yared in Ethiopia culminating in a fabulous exhibition and auction this week in Fremantle, Western Australia. I am SO pleased that I got to see the exhibition while I am in this part of the country for Quiltwest. Over a period of fifteen months, the […]
Bonsai at the National Arboretum
While in Canberra, we have taken the opportunity to visit the fledgling National Arboretum. It is located to the west of the city on the site of pine forests that were devastated by bushfires in 2001 and 2003. The elevated position gives great view although it was overcast on our visit The arboretum is comprised […]
Time Out in Orange
It’s been a busy 2014 so far and, with two significant exhibitions to launch, the pace will continue. That’s why I deliberately factored in some time out with the Laundry King for a few days in Central West of New South Wales. We are based in Orange and have been enjoying visiting some small wineries […]
Glimpses of Washington DC
I was last in Washington DC at the end of 1990. A blizzard had closed down the city a few days before and it was still bitterly cold. As a keen post-graduate political science student, I took in tours of the White House and Capitol Hill but was otherwise quite content with museum crawling through […]
Denver Lights
While we were in Denver, we travelled to the Botanic Gardens on the outskirts of the city to take in the Christmas lights display. There was a beautiful full moon and the evening was very mild. (That didn’t stop us from drinking hot chocolate, if only to warm up our hands.) Now we are in […]