Pauline Conolly

This piece  is a tribute to poet and writer Kate Llewellyn (1936…), and also a review of one of her early books, The Mountain, published in 1989. I have been reading it again in my Blue Mountains garden, surrounded by the fragrance of Daphne.  It was the...

Sydney’s Rookwood  Cemetery is the largest in the  southern hemisphere, and dates from Victorian times. When retired Sydney schoolteacher Arthur Apsey died on May 24 1925, he was buried just two days later in Rookwood’s   Anglican section. Apsey had lived in a substantial property called The Pines,...

Did you, like me, have a relative who gave you a tin of Danish butter biscuits every Christmas for decades? Maybe you still do? 😎 There’s nothing really wrong with them, but they just don’t measure up to chocolate covered macadamia cookies, or a bottle of champagne…especially ...