This past week has been the Jewish festival of Sukkot (pronounced sook-ot). Sukkot follows on from the intensely spiritual holy days of Rosh Hashana (New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). In Biblical times this was a month long celebration culminating in the joyous festival of Sukkot. It was a time when the … Continued
No, the title of this post is not referring to husbands, boyfriends or partners who persistently pester you about sexual favours. (If you don’t ‘get’ this comment see last week’s Urban Nomad post about the cultural impact on language.) It’s actually about birds – of the feathered variety. The house we’re in, is set on … Continued
This week we moved house. As nomads this is a regular event. However, we’ve been very lucky (and grateful) to be in one place for 5 months – we moved to a house in North Ryde in early April and had been there until last week (mid September). This has been wonderful but there’s a … Continued
Voters of Australia – you’ve done it! Congratulations! Surely a Nobel prize must be on its way. You’ve successfully built a time machine and sent the entire country back to the 1950’s. We now have a Prime Minister who: Disregards any scientific evidence of climate change Is going to reduce the public service by 12,000 … Continued
There’s a lovely line from the movie “The Exotic Marigold Hotel”: “It’s all good in the end. If it’s not good, it’s not the end.” This week has been the epitome of that statement. Last Sunday, Danita and I went to have a look at a new car. Actually, we’d been talking about how it … Continued