Month: June 2011

Brisbane Winter Festival

We’re celebrating winter big-time this year in Brisbane. An authentic cold-snap is well underway in the city. Personally, I’ve always laughed at Brisbane’s winter – it brings out the ridiculous from residents. It’s the only city I’ve been to (and I’ve travelled) where you can sit at a sidewalk cafe with someone beside you in an outfit straight from a ski village and seated opposite someone in shorts … Read More Brisbane Winter Festival

Love and Breakfast Exhibition Opening

I had the pleasure of being invited to the genuine (champagne) gallery exhibition opening of an artist friend. She was opening at an artists cooperative in Chinderah. Unfortunately I was too sick to go, which I really regret. Not just because I love to go and show support of young artists. But this was an important occasion for my friend and I very much … Read More Love and Breakfast Exhibition Opening

#7 Way to Live – Physics is inescapable

Now I’ve said it out-loud it sounds ridiculous. Of course the physical laws are inescapable. But for some reason I continually challenge the essence of Newton’s 3rd law of forces; “that every action has an equal and corresponding reaction.” Never is this more acutely felt when having to use a plunger on a drain that’s recently imbibed bubblebath. And yes, I’m aware Sir Isaac … Read More #7 Way to Live – Physics is inescapable

#6 Way to Live

Don’t forsake spending time in the company of friends.  When you see someone you know face-to-face your body releases ‘happy’ chemicals. There are a myriad of useful ways to keep in touch with our loved ones, and they really are useful. But (and we all hate a big but!) they do often fail to produce the same beneficial physiological responses that face- to-face interaction provides. Plus there really … Read More #6 Way to Live