New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jules Munshin. On the Town (1949) And they weren’t wrong but the film clip then takes them on a 24 hour tour and there’s no way they could do all of that in 24 hours. The Statue of ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I had lunch on Southbank in the CBD with friends during the week. I wasn’t going to do any shopping but I ended up doing a survey after lunch and she gave me a coffee voucher for my trouble…slight mistake as in wandering around looking for somewhere to redeem it ...
Washington D.C. is a most amazing place, it’s fairly small as these things go and I was able to hop on a train and be in Virginia in only a few minutes. It also has an incredibly large range of museums and monuments mostly within walking distance of each other, ...
I was very fortunate to be able to take a couple of day trips from the conference in Boston. One of them was to the town of Newport in Rhode Island to see the Touro Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery there. I won’t give any details of the cemetery except ...
A nice little photo taken in New York, we stayed a couple of doors down from the Algonquin. As you can read in the plaque it was the meeting place of some clever writers including Robert Benchley of Jaws fame (we saw Bruce the Shark at Universal Studios) and Alexander ...
We found Boston to be a most amazing place with a rich historical background, there is a lovely walk showing the sights and sounds of Boston’s trek to freedom. Here is a photo of the map, the red line shows where you walk and you can pick up a map ...
One of the must see places in LA is the La Brea Tarpits, an absolutely amazing working museum. A hundred and fifty million trillion years ago…actually between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago but there’s nothing like a little exaggeration…asphalt naturally seeped through the ground making it sticky for animals. Now ...
This is the loot I brought back from America. More will be written about some of these books as I read them. From our garden, it was delightful to come back to the emerging greenery of our Japanese Maple. Back in Australia I found this lovely sign. Tell ...
One of the day trips during our conference in Boston was to the Yiddish Book Center, as you can imagine that was a must see for me so I dropped everything else and booked myself for this trip. Aaron Lansky is the founder, director and rescuer of a million books ...
We were incredibly lucky in Philadelphia to be able to stay with family who took us out and about. They were actually somewhat outside Philadelphia but it was beautiful. One lady took us into Philadelphia and we wandered around doing various things, another lady took us into Amish country where ...
LA was a wonderful experience. It was our first brief stop in America and our last not-so-brief stop. At first we only had a few hours there so to help with our jetlag and also to get ourselves started with our phones we walked into the nearest shopping centre (took ...
I felt this sticker on the window of the taxi in Washington needed some attention, not the typing but the top sticker. This lovely man is called General Nathanael Greene, originally made out of bronze the copper in him has leeched out due to the rain and stained the ...
The post you’ve all been waiting for…all week! Friday Photos! Let’s have a cheer!!! Yayayayy This is a shop in Boston, I recall it being for clothes which must explain the window full of old sewing machines. Providence. I will explain later. “In glom of nit.” Not quite ...
It was a strange thing but everyone noticed me when we were passing a bookshop my ears pricked up my and demeanor changed. There were some we managed to get inside and others were closed so I have a range of photos for you. This first one is only one ...
Here is the rest of the photos and information I couldn’t put in on Thursday. These were (I use the past tense as I finished them up!) gluten free, fructose friendly and just like regular pretzels. They were bought for me from a place called The Commissary, when I ...