“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” - Leo Tolstoy   Anna Moura (born 1979 in Santarém, Portugal) is an internationally recognised Portu...

  “It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.” - Epictetus   Smoothies are a great...

“I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.” - Albert Einstein   Today is the anniversary of the birthday of: Robert the Bruce...

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part...

“The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.” - Arthur Smith   A supermoon is the coincidence of...

“Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.” - Samuel Goldwyn   We watched the 1972 John Sturges “Jo...

“All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.” - Marc Chagall   Marc Chagall (Moishe Shagal) was b...

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” - Johann Sebastian Bach   For Music Saturda...

“I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a v...

“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mand...

“More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.” - Fidel Castro   Magpie...

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” - Susan Sontag   Brisbane is the port and the capital city of Queensland, Australia, a...

“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” - J ean Racine   I have been extremely busy with work, hence this belated Movie Monday...

“The main facts in human life are five: Birth, food, sleep, love and death.” - E. M. Forster   Evelyn Pickering (1855-1919) was born in ...

“Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.” - Alan Furst   As w...

“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I kno...

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” - Plato   Well, Aus...

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” - Aeschylus   Magpie Tales has provided us with a photograph, “Univ...

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” - Laozi   When one travels the routine is disrupted and one’s schedule is thrown somew...

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” - Charles M. Schulz   I am in Per...