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25 Cats and One Blue Pussy

February 8, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  25 Cats named Sam and One Blue Pussy   The reason I hate regular underwear – and socks, too – is that if you send twenty pairs of shorts and twenty pairs of socks to the laundromat, you always only get nineteen back. Even when I wash them myself, I get nineteen back. The more I think about … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, artists, books, Fashion, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment Tagged: 25 Cats name Sam and one Blue Pussy, Andy Warhol, Cat, Cats, Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy, Elizbeth Taylor, Julia Warhola, Liz Taylor, Pop Art, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Warhol

There Goes the Neighbourhood Dogs

July 25, 2020 by Lesley Truffle
Dogs face and eyes

  There Goes the Neighbourhood Dogs   ‘A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.’ Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) French playwright, actor & poet.   In my bayside suburb dogs are everywhere you go. There may well be a pandemic rampaging across the globe but for our local dogs, it’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Australia, Melbourne, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: Bayside Melbourne, café, cafes, dogs, Lesley Truffle, Melbourne, mongrels, neighbourhood dogs, Pugs, street dogs, Whippets

Beach Dogs

May 9, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

  Beach Dogs Bayside Melbourne is dog heaven. During shutdown I’ve been walking the beach promenade every day. It provides a complete brain clean. Many mongrels and pedigree hounds are out there on the beach before first light. I chat to the owners outside the Guilty Moose café, as I pick up my morning takeout … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Australia, Melbourne Tagged: Australian beach, Bayside Melbourne, beach, dogs, Lesley Truffle, Melbourne, mongrels, The Guilty Moose

Strange Days

March 19, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

  Strange Days ‘andrà tutto bene – everything will be fine.’   The Italians are living in the European COVID-19 epicentre and Italy is currently under emergency quarantine measures. To date there are more than 24,700 people with the disease and more than 1800 have died. Italy has a world class health system but it … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, current news, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: andrà tutto bene, Australia, Australian animals, Coronaviris, COVID-19, everything will be fine, Italians, Italy, Laura Baldassari, lockdown, Mogo Wildlife Park, Mogo Wildlife Park NSW, optimism

A Dog’s Life

February 22, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

  A Dog’s Life     ‘Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story’                                                                              Scott Fitzgerald from The Crack-Up   The modern dog has one hell of a good life. With the proviso that the dog lives in a pet orientated country like Australia and … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Fashion, Melbourne, Social Comment Tagged: Australia, Dog food, dogs, pets, Tiffany's dog bowl, Tiffany's dog collar

My Friend Nigel

January 25, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

My Friend Nigel   Nigel was a street cat. I first met him in a French cafe in inner city Melbourne when he strolled out of the kitchen and slipped up onto my lap. He made me laugh. To hell with health regulations, he’d settled in for the evening. Nigel had no interest in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Melbourne, Observations Tagged: Cat, Cats, fitzroy melbourne, friends, friendship, fur friends, Melbourne, Nigel, rescue cat

Devils of Tasmania

September 12, 2019 by Lesley Truffle
"Taz!"by Justy.C is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Devils of Tasmania The Tasmanian Devil knows how to rub its enemies up the wrong way. When confronted by transgressors, devils have been observed to yawn. A big wide yawn exposing all its sharp teeth and strong muscular jaws. They’re strictly carnivorous and go for snakes, birds, fish, insects and carrion. Tasmania is the only … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Historical, Wilderness Areas Tagged: Australia World Heritage, Australian animals, Carnivorous marsupials, Devil Facial Tumour, Devils, Endangered species, Marsupials, nose to tail eating, Tasmania, Tasmanian animals, Tasmanian Devils, World Heritage

The Mad Boy

April 20, 2018 by Lesley Truffle

  Lord Gerald Berners was a talented musician and painter. He also wrote for the stage and his impressionistic paintings continue to sell well today (that’s Gerald in the photograph above). He converted Faringdon House, in Oxfordshire England, into a luxurious country mansion that soon had England’s fashion set vying for a weekend invitation. Exquisite … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, art/theatre event, books, Mavericks & Renegades Tagged: Cecil Beaton, Gerald Berners, Lesley Truffle, Lord Berners, Robert Heber Percy, Sofka Zinovieff

A Cat called Oscar and Bellingen NSW

June 20, 2016 by Lesley Truffle
Ginger cat called Oscar waking from nap

Bellingen is everything that I always hope an Australian country town will be. It’s situated riverside in New South Wales, in the lovely Bellinger Valley, between the coast and the Dorrigo Plateau. Bellingen is also in close proximity to the Dorrigo World Heritage rainforest and some stunning beaches running from Urunga to Woolgoolga. I was … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Observations, Writers & Readers Events Tagged: Australia, Beaches, Bellingen, Bellingen Brewery & Co., Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival, Dorrigo rainforest, Lesley Truffle, New South Wales, Oscar, Wisteria Cottage

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