Antipodes

As a child in South Grafton, I was expected to admire a gushy poem penned by a young American Catholic fellow named Joyce Kilmer , killed in...

This simple graphic struck me as funny... but my sense of humor might well be atypical, if not frankly perverted: I don't have a F...

Who's the arsehole who destroyed my tree?

All four peonies of the shrub type are in flower, whereas my five herbaceous specimens are waiting for some prolonged sunshine. Pink Ad...

With all the recent rain, it's not surprising that Gamone is surrounded in greenery. Often, Fitzroy remains motionless, pensive, ...

These days, people often paint themselves with their colors. They use their bodies as a support for the transmission of messages. In ...

I think that one miracle in particular has become more famous than all the others, for the simple reason that almost everybody has tried to ...

It's never too early to start looking around for new worlds that might be colonized, one day, by our human descendants. Incidentally, it...

This looks like a quite ordinary fruit salad, composed of sliced apples, pears, oranges, strawberries and kiwifruit. The photo doesn...

The warm weather has set in, and the grass at Gamone is green. Almost overnight, throughout the region, white blossoms have appeared on the ...

In his wonderful book entitled Jerusalem, City of Mirrors (1989), the late Amos Elon [1926-2009] spoke of a mysterious affliction referred...

Thinking of Bobby Sands . And of his comrades Francis Hughes , Ray McCreesh , Patsy O'Hara , Joe McDonnell , Martin Hurson , Kevin Lynch...

Every time I've watched this celebrated video, I've been struck by the absurd idea that we humans were created, unfortunately, rathe...

Over the last few days, Gamone has been bathed in sunshine: a pleasant change from being bathed in chilly wetness. Prolonged periods of over...