“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.” - Diana Vreeland   Rodolfo Luigi Boccher...

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” - Mark Twain   We have had some wild Spring weather,...

“I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.” - Gene Simmons   Time has always fascinated human beings. The int...

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” - Franz Kafka   World Food Day is celebrated...

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” - Benjamin Disraeli   Although Wollongong is New South Wales’ t...

“You get educated by travelling.” - Solange Knowles   I am travelling for work again and visiting the seaside city of Wollongong,  loc...

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” – Rembrandt   Giorgio Giulio Clovio or Juraj Julije Klović (1498 – January...

“For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.” - Henry A. Kissinger   ...

“Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?” - Lady Gregory   World Egg Da...

“I adore my art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too m...

“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.” - Diane Abbott   This week is Me...

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” - William Penn   Magpie Tales has selected this week an image by Crilleb50 to act ...

“Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.” - Stendhal   We watched three French films recently and overall they were ...

“I love a sunburnt country, 
A land of sweeping plains, 
Of ragged mountain ranges, 
Of droughts and flooding rains. 
I love her far hori...

“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” - W. H. Auden   “Alcina” (HWV 34) is an op...

“Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.” - Edward Lear   With Halloween around the c...

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” - I...

“We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.” - Saint Augustine   Today is the anniversary o...

“I’ve got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.” - Cliff Richard   Magpie Tales has given us a Mark Haley photograph to inspire us ...

“And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: It provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue ...