Too genteel by half!

Too genteel by half!

With all we’ve been seeing and hearing emanating from England currently, we do know and understand that the English people are reserved and polite. I’m sure that this very polite billboard I see on the Melbourne skyline when driving back from the airport...
How’s your ensemble? 

How’s your ensemble? 

You know, I love the theatre, particularly musical theatre and last night I was watching a great show (Hairspray, my wife loved it much more than me!) and I really took notice of the ensemble. Now, I hear you ask, what are ensemble roles? Well, to grab someone’s...
Pom by heritage, Aussie by birth!

Pom by heritage, Aussie by birth!

I have always been an ardent admirer of the monarchy, what with an English rose as a mother and pioneering Aussie farmers on dad’s side. Back in 1952, as an 11 year old paper boy it took me over 3 hours to do my normal 45 minute paper delivery round. That was simply...
Another commercial

Another commercial

The passing at the end of August of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the Soviet politician, who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country’s dissolution in 1991, reminded me of the Pizza Hut commercial he featured in after retiring....