Overseas – or straits
The year kicked off with overseas travel, said sea being more correctly a strait, but what’s the difference anyway? It was a body of water, I was on a plane, and I was going somewhere... Where? Hobart. To work at a festival called MONA FOMA…
Darwin life, Larrakia country
Down south the sun sets on another 12-degree day, so I board a plane chasing it, finding five hours later in Larrakia country, it was here all along. In Darwin it's the fourth of six seasons: Gurrung – when the weather is hot and dry…
Blue sky biohazard
Australia: blue skies, big open brown spaces, lots and lots of minerals and one, particularly nasty one... Chrysotile was once mined to make asbestos – a popular, cheap housing material used in Australia in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It's now widely known that asbestos is highly toxic…
Auspicious? Suspicious.
Auspicious gave us just three weeks for three wedding celebrations in three different countries. So I stocked up on Punjabi suits from the Chennai Silk Palace in Klang, packed the gastrolyte and set out from KL with RR and a small touring party of friends and relatives…