Nostalgia

The French have a reputation of spending hours at the dinner table! And this is certainly what we do on weekends! Every Saturday or Sunday, the French invite either their family or their friends. The appetizer And when all the guests have arrived, we start with the appetizer, commonly called “the aperitif” which consists of […]

Did the Stray Cats ever play in your town? As you may know, I grew up in Perth, Western Australia.  In the days without internet, without any easy way to communicate with anyone outside your immediate group of friends.  It wasn’t really a great place to live.  We were so isolated, not just from the […]

Ian Dury 12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000 I first heard of Ian Dury when I was about 13 years old (1980).  At that time in my life I was attending a religious school for girls, which was intended to turn me into a young lady, and not the rebellious teenager that I actually […]