Voting in Brisbane, 1937
Ah, yes … some things never change, though I see this ‘Ordinary Voting Officer’ is using a fountain pen. Voting in Brisbane, 1937 Originally uploaded by State Library of Queensland, Australia
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10 Years on … how technology has changed my world
Yesterday the new solar panels on my roof started generating energy for the first time, joining the smaller hot-water solar system I’ve been using for a couple of years now. I was fascinated to see the wheel on the old meter spinning backwards for the first time; the energy company will put in a new
Continue reading ...Lest We Forget – thanks Dad!
Image via Wikipedia Dad served in the Australian Army in WWII. He was one of what playwright Sumner Locke-Elliott was later to call the Rusty Bugles, in his play of that name. 090296 WILSON. C.S. served in the ranks as a mechanic, working on Army vehicles that were building the highways through the Australian outback,
Continue reading ...Quote of the day: on independent theatre, quality, and guts
Some of the best and the worst opinion can be found in commentary on blog posts. The good is always signed by the person with guts enough to back the words, the worst never is. Here’s a good one from Simon Ogden to a blog post titled Boring Theatre. He’s talking about Vancouver, but it
Continue reading ...Project 365:09 and Post #109:09
An image a day is the goal. I didn’t make it as planned, but here are some of the best most evocative memory captures for 2009 in this, the 109th and ultimate blog post of the year for Groundling. See you on the other side!
Continue reading ...Footnotes to my year in theatre – 2009
The theatre and I have had a love affair for many years now; my Actors Equity membership card notes 13 March 1973 as my joining date, but that is just the marker of when it became a day job for real; the affair began long before then. During this – my first, official year of
Continue reading ...Memories are made of this … a moving Christmas wish
Snippets from our family’s year, a lot of it spent away from home … a little ‘moving postcard’ via Animoto. Hope your year has also been filled with happy memories!
Continue reading ...They read poetry in the trenches: lest we forget
A WW 1 trench edition of C J Dennis’ The Glugs of Gosh.
Continue reading ...15 Memorable Productions
Image by Dramagirl via Flickr 1. My first theatre memory – I believe it was a play, probably a vaudeville show which they used to produce at the old Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane. I must have been about 2 or 3. I recall little but the sound, the lights, laughter and general atmosphere. Apparently I
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