Travel

Summertime

Photo of sunrise in Penguin Tasmania

  Summertime   ‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush little baby, don’t you cry …’                                                                    George Gershwin’s lyrics to Summertime   On the island chorusing cicadas are marking the arrival of summer weather  in my … [Read more…]

Marriage is the Tomb of Love

Marriage is the tomb of love   ‘The company … was far more likely to give pleasure than one made up of persons of quality, where gaiety freezes in the chill of etiquette.’ Casanova describing an evening spent with a group of actors.   Having just finished editing my fiction manuscript I’m taking some  time … [Read more…]