Antipodes

In the mid-1950s, when I was a teenager in Grafton and an active member of the Anglican community attached to Christ Church Cathedral, I wo...

Maybe God exists, and He cares for all of us, even those amongst us who happen to be sinners… and criminals. But there are times when every...

My maternal grandmother, Mary Jane Kennedy [1888-1966], used to tell me about her first doll, when she was a little girl up on her father’...

In the early hours of the morning, when your house is lost in autumnal mists, and everything around you is so quiet and motionless that the...

In my previous blog post, entitled Wood shed finished [ display ], I stated proudly that the structure was “sturdily-built”. Prudent, I had...

Except for a few details (such as screwing on the final side tiles, aligning and protecting the protruding rafters, and paintwork), my wood...

For several years, my favorite cheese has been Ossau-Iraty , produced from unpasteurized ewe’s milk in the Béarn and Pays basque region of...

Like countless people throughout the world, I remember distinctly the moment when I learned that John F Kennedy had been assassinated. ...

This morning, Choranche received the first autumn snow. (Winter won’t start, of course, before a month’s time.) And the view from m...

A few months ago, I deliberately refrained from indicating on my blog that my young female donkey Fanette had suddenly died. At the time, ...

A new publishing house is about to emerge: Gamone Press . Our first title will be a paper book: A Little Bit of Irish — My Mothers' Peo...

Prince Charles has been in combat, over the years, on all kinds of hostile fronts. So, it’s normal that the breast of the future monarch s...

                                                — photo Didier Plowy The young woman in blue—who seems to be smiling inwardly, as if he...

This afternoon, at the charcuterie counter in a local supermarket, I was intrigued by the behavior of a young female client who wished to p...

In 2010, my novel All the Earth is Mine was published as an E-book by a US firm, Smashwords . After a while, having received not a single c...

Once or twice a day, as usual, Fitzroy lets off steam by means of a short but intense session of hose running. I tried to “freeze”...