“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.” - Herman Melville Today we visited...

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” Hilaire Belloc Quite on the spur of the moment we decided to come to Adelaide. I...

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.” - Her...

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” - Herman Melville Today is Boxing Day, St Stephen’s F...

“Do you love your Creator? Love your fellow-beings first.” – Mohammed The birthday flower for today is the Christmas rose , Helleborus niger...

"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!" - Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol) Christmas Eve this ye...

“Architecture is frozen music.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Today the sun enters the zodiac sign of Capricorn , and will remain there until...

“None love, but they who wish to love” – Jean Baptiste Racine It is Jean Baptiste Racine's (French playwright - 1639) and Giacomo Pucci...

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” - Harriet van Horne The closer it gets to Christmas, the more ...

“In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.” - Sam Llewelyn The masdevallia orchid , Masdevallia coccinea , is...

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford To love ...

“Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau Very close to where we live there is a...

“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.” – Horace We watched the Stephen Frears 2006 film “The Queen” with Helen Mirren, yesterday...

“England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.” George Santayana Today is a noteworthy da...

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy How easy it is to destroy, how difficult to crea...

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your fri...

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert Heinlein. December 13th is the Feast Day ...

“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.” - Elie Wiesel A poem written quite a few years ago, ...

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them. - Anatole France I have been very busy in my spare time l...

"A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen." - Emily Lotney We watched a delightful German movie yesterday a...