Mammy Blue   Oh mammy, Oh mammy, mammy blue... Mammy blue. Oh mammy,
 Oh mammy, mammy blue... My mammy blue.   ...

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” – Robert Urich   For Food Friday, a classic vegetarian treat that packs quite a bit of taste...

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” - Adam Smith   The ancient Romans believed that on May 9 t...

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” - Ma...

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw   Magpie Tales has presented us with a paintin...

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” - Carl Jung   We watch...

“I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.” - Brigitte Bardot...

“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” - Psalm 118:24   Easter Saturday and the day was devoted ...

“My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.” - Amy Sedaris   Great Thursday of the Holy Week in ...

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” - Khalil Gibran   In 2013, Greek Orthodox Easter falls on Sunday May...

“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 wro...

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” - Albert Einstein   I must confess that like any one of us I have my faults. One a...

“Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel   The Australian landscape painter Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (18...

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed p...

“Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook” – Chinese Proverb   Autumn is with us and there is a wealth of autumn vegetable...

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” - Blaise Pascal   Today is St Mark’s Feas...

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” - H. G. Wells   With Anzac Day coming around again this year it was distressing to hear that som...

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” - Thomas Jefferson   I am in Adelaide for work and it is quite pleasa...

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.” - Malcolm X   I m...

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” -  Plato   I have already featured Leonardo da Vinci previously in this blog for Art Sunday, h...