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In September 1962, I was spending my final fortnight with IBM in Paris. After seven months working as a computer programmer in the IBM Europ...

My mother’s eldest brother, Eric Walker , liked to point out in his typical loudspoken manner that I was conceived under Bawden’s Bridge , l...

This is the cover of a famous Australian weekly magazine, Pix , dated 23 September 1946 (the eve of my 6th birthday). The woman is the US ac...

Last Thursday evening, a fascinating TV program concerning the long and tumultuous career of the former French police chief Maurice Papon [...

It would be dishonest of me not to admit that, towards the end of winter at Gamone, a certain number of innocent pots and pans tend to pass ...

My friend Yves Tallineau has just sent me a couple of photos dating from 1969, when we were working together in Paris in a software company...

After fiddling around in genealogy for over a quarter of a century, and getting held up joyously for many years by maternal rural bush-range...

Long ago, shortly after my arrival at Gamone, I learned that it can be a mistake to imagine that the weather at Choranche, at a particular m...

I was awoken early this morning by an amazing dream, in which I was actually putting together the elements of a blog article: in fact, the o...

On this 26th day of the month of January, my parents were married. Armed with this date, smart readers will be able to calculate that the fo...

Starting in 1950, Australia dominated the Davis Cup for a period of four years, first with the duo Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor . Then th...

Yesterday morning, Sophia started to bark, the bell rang and, when I scrambled downstairs, I found a fellow delivering the new phone directo...

On 24 September 1940, my peephole into human existence was opened at a maternity clinic with the glorious name of Runnymede , evoking the hi...

I was intrigued by this striking French ad that asks: " How can zeros and ones help New York police to arrest criminals? " An inst...

At the age of 18, when I met up with the IBM company in Sydney and started to learn how to be a computer programmer, I was amused and intrig...