Archives by Tag 'Australia'
Thanks for a gallery of memories!
Wow, what a launch party at Glaskins Gallery! It’s taken me three days, but I finally get to stop and draw a very deep breath.. Friday night was amazing – so many smiling faces, so many good wishes and so many wonderful friends! I felt as though I air-kissed everyone and talked to no-one. I [...]
Border Watch – the launch II
God bless all who sail in her – the book is launched, with champagne and speeches. Just the right amount of both. Helene spoke last holding a bouquet of flowers from mum and Bronwyn, and Dad. (Dad died four years ago, but his spirit lives on, and as he was the author of a couple [...]
Cool Ice, Hot Nights!
We were sat in the pool tonight sipping a chilled sauv blanc (as you do in Cairns in the middle of January) contemplating what our less fortunate relatives might be doing. The crowd in the UK would be out shovelling snow off their footpath so they could get to their car, to scrape the ice [...]
Left home again…
So I finished the first draft of Beyond the Borders and thought I’d get a moment to celebrate and reflect, instead my body has decided it needs a head cold to to remind it how good life can be… Am now sitting in my hotel room in Sydney, trying to remember what I forgot to [...]
Varuna – LongLines programme
Wow, I’m here. After the weekend from hell, Varuna is a slice of paradise. Highlights of my weekend included forgetting to take my reading glasses to work and then discovering my boss had turned up to do a routine check of my performance and I could barely read the simulator screens, let alone my notes… [...]
What price will travellers pay for clean, green aviation?
The aviation industry has spent the last one hundred years dealing with rapidly advancing technology. Is it ready to face the changes that will be imposed by Emission Trading Schemes? Kevin Bullis of Technology Review doesn’t believe so. http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23561/?a=f The article makes some interesting points about how far technology can go to reducing carbon emissions. [...]
So old bold pilots might know something after all…
My brother sent me a link to an article in the Harvard Health Publications from Harvard Medical School. Below is an excerpt from it and it makes interesting reading. Maybe some of our wise grey heads should be staying in the air to counteract the exuberance of youth… Age not a barrier to peak performance [...]