Third, again, at trivia tonight: another $10- to spend on food/drinks.
Last night I went off to Dendy Newtown for an advance screening of Romulus, My Father: and what a fantastic film it is. Director Richard Roxburgh (who is for ever implanted in my mind as the Duke from Moulin Rouge) and producer Robert Connolly [...]
These past few years have been interesting in terms of my interest in and awareness of a number of ethical issues: while I had some basic knowledge of environmental issues, ethics [ethics and Christianity in particular], issues and programmes such as Fair Trade and Make Poverty History passed me by, until I discovered, and later [...]
One of the great discoveries for my daily *cough* Bible reading has been the Navarre series of Bible Commentaries: I have read the Bible and commentary for St Mark [my favourite Gospel] and Hebrews, and am now making my way, slowly, through the Captivity Letters book [though I have older versions given my covers are [...]
I wrote a fortnight ago, after watching Noise, that I was looking forward to watching Romulus, My Father when it came out. Well, I’m off to see it tomorrow.
Dendy at Newtown (a very cosmopolitan inner-Sydney suburb, with a wondrous restaurant strip) is having a preview screening tomorrow, with director Richard Roxburgh and producer Robert [...]
A busy day — the website, set to be launched any day soon, is proving a bit more tricky than we, or the people we employed to do it, thought. Oh well — I’m in IT and am used to the unexpected.
After a busy day and weekend, I’m looking forward to a night of [...]
No Come Down O Love Divine, as I may’ve hoped [they sang it that morning], but a wonderful selection of hymns [a few new to me] and a beautiful anthem for Solemn Evensong with Procession at Christ Church St Laurence. I had to leave immediately after Evensong proper, just as Benediction started: perhaps next [...]
While I slept in and missed Pentecost at my parish, once I got up I visited grandma, bought some (unexpectedly on sale!) winter pyjamas, and then, seeing it advertised, went along to the My Lords & Ladies Medieval Fayre, which opened the 2007 Blacktown City Festival, A License to Thrill (get it?). No photos [...]
And oops. I completely forgot it was Pentecost today.
I worked yesterday from around 11:30 to 17:00 fixing a problem that was threatening the release of our new website on Monday. After that it was off to the Nepean Rowing Club [along the Nepean River, though, it being dark we couldn't see [...]
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the passing of the referendum that ensured Indigenous Australians would be counted in the Census and that also gave the Commonwealth the power to legislate for the benefit of Indigenous people. I confess to some amazement and their not being included in a census until 1967, and while [...]
If you cannot be merciful at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be unlike a sluggard. If you are not victorious, do not exalt yourself over the vanquished. If you [...]