Life ( Sir Walter Raleigh)

While Gert was pensively resting in Downward Dog the other day, this little poem by Sir Walter Raleigh came to mind:

Department of Stories

Do you think, in this age of alternative facts, that this is a good slogan for a department store?

When best-dressed is undressed

Who says Australia’s a cultural backwater? Rafael Bonachela and the Sydney Dance Company’s Sydney Festival show last month was a world first: nude dancers in front of nude paintings before a nude audience. Strangely enough, the nude-audience shows sold out faster than the clothed shows.

http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2017/nude-live/?q=bonachela

Here is the news, get stuffed

Probably unreliable memories of Christmas past

 

Now that Christmas 2014 is becoming a memory, we have time to reflect on Christmases past (prompted, we must confess, by the delightful disclosures of Steerforth in his blog http://ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com.au/