Night Train to Lisbon is a beautifully crafted film with excellent performances from a stellar cast. The script delivers a compelling and highly believable storyline and the sensitive direction allows the highly capable cast to show their mettle. Powerful imagery and judicious shot selection add dimension to the drama. Night Train to Lisbon is based […]

  Between The World and Me is an astonishing work in a number of ways. It reveals the prejudice, bigotry and inequities of being a black American and with rare candour, it unmasks a society comprised of two worlds. One being the Dream World of white America offering privilege and opportunity, the other being the […]

This is the most fabulous recipe for a Christmas or Wedding Cake.  I arrived in Australia in the mid sixties and lived on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.  After a frustrating search to find herbs and spices I rang a friend who had studied naturopathy in London.  She suggested I should eat at Mister Mitzos’ […]

  Recently I digitalised my dad’s slide collection so that my sisters and I could share and enjoy our childhood memories. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane and I found treasures in this photo collection. They were mainly of our life in Papua New Guinea (PNG) during the 1960s and early 70’s. My […]

Have you dreamed of a cruise in the Baltic Sea and Norwegian Fjords? I did, and this year I decided to make the dream a reality. So my hairy biker husband and I found the cruise that fitted our schedule, and booked a nice balcony cabin about six months ahead. We’re not new to travelling, […]

  I was reminded of our surplus possessions when we recently stayed in a home exchange apartment in southern France. The English couple who owned it had no other property; they had sold a home in the UK and also given up a large house in another part of France to move to this 35 […]

  Spike Barrow was an inspirational dog and with his departure my husband David and I have a big hole in our lives. Spike was just a couple of weeks off 11 years of age and we were thinking birthday time and doggy treats as opposed to his demise. He contracted Lupus and unfortunately the only […]

  Woman in Gold is based upon the true story of art thefts undertaken by the Nazi’s during World War 2. Central to this story is the wealthy Altmann family of Vienna, Austria. The Jewish Altmann’s possessed a significant art collection of past and present masters including the striking portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav […]