Personal Reflections

I remain bogged down in other writing. I will give a report here when I have a little more progress to report. For the moment, I took the da...

Greater Sydney with the three proposed metropolitan centres. To the north the megalopolis is merging with the growing Lake Macquarie New...

Photo Southern Courier : bikes. Coogee, Sydney  A month or so back I suddenly noticed these yellow bikes sprinkled around the area where...

I came across this reconstruction of the city of Constantinople or Byzantium, later Istanbul,  in 1200 AD via Vivid Maps . I hadn't s...

It is eleven days since my last post, one of the longest gaps in the history of this blog even when I have been travelling. The almost f...

Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co was one of my favourite books when I  was at school and remains so today. Episodic in form, it is ...

It is now just over two years since the Greek political and financial crisis, I have listed some of the then posts at the end of this post...

Humans are classifying animals. We create constructs, systems of classification, that help us interpret and explain the complex world around...

On 30 April 2017 I briefly discussed Brexit and the EU, revisiting the question on 22 June. On 30 April, the EU had just released its nego...

Today's Monday Forum provides a chance for anyone to raise whatever they like I am not even going to give hints!. Update 1 With d...

I remain focused, indeed obsessed with architecture and the built environment. This will pass, but for the present I am enjoying the journe...

Martin Place, Sydney. Closing the homelessness camp. Image Sydney Morning Herald The visit to Australia by Professor Eoin O'Sull...