“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.” - Leonardo da Vinci Increasingly I feel as though my life ...

“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.” - From the movie “An Affair to Remember” We had a very cold day in Melbourne today, a...

“Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu!” - English round, ca 1260 CE The ragged robin , Lychnis flos-cuculi , is the birthday plant for this ...

“Every mile is two in winter.” - George Herbert I was in Brisbane today for the day, thus it was another jam-packed full workday as well as ...

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” - W. Somerset Maugham We have ...

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong ...

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams
 For Art Sunday today a lively cave pai...

“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.”- Herodotus For Song Saturday, a movement form Nicholas Lens’ Requiem, “Flamma Flam...

“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” - Welsh Proverb “Fawlty Towers” was one of the most successful and funny T...

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.” – William Shakespeare Today is the International Day of Innocent Childr...

“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.” - Henry Ward Beecher News item: “PARIS/LONDON...

“Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?” - Dante Alighi...

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” - Peter Ustinov At the weekend we saw a rather amusing French film, Francis Veber’s 2006, ...

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” - Aristotle For Art Sunday, a painting...

“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine Breaking up is hard to do, and goodbyes ...

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.” - Robert ...

“It is a wise man’s part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.” - Thomas More As the numbers of the dreaded “Swine Flu” i...

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” - Robert Browning Our life is brief, our years in short supply like a small stack of parchment, wh...

“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.” - Cicero The history of civilisation walks hand in hand with the history of writ...

“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” - Isak Dinesen I was in Brisbane for work today and the day was full of me...