Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
I’m so pleased that Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress in the Oscars last night. Not just because she’s Australian but because she’s such a superb actor and also seems like a genuinely lovely person. I saw The Aviator last week and was blown away by her portrayal of Katherine Hepburn. The woman is a [...]
It started snowing this week. The first time it happened it was only a flurry and it didn’t settle. The second time, we got about half an inch and it settled. Everyone was so excited. It was 9 o’clock at night and there were people running around on the street, having snow fights and shrieking. [...]
As many of you know, my not-so-secret obsession is BookCrossing, a website for tracking and sharing books. There is an article on BookCrossing in The Independent today and apparently it was on Radio 2 this morning as well. There’s been a sudden frenzy of interest in BookCrossing in the UK media and we’re all hoping [...]
These brave souls from Nepal are defying a government ban on independent news broadcasts to bring news of Nepal to the outside world. As they say ‘we want our democracy back’. I did read an excellent articles about how Nepalese newspapers were making fun of the ban on political reporting by carrying no news whatsoever [...]
Once upon a time, before the Dreamtime, the centre of Australia was forested. Every years the monsoon came, penetrating to the heart of what is now the driest continent on earth, and feeding the lush forestation and cornucopia of plants and animals. Or at least according to the scientist quoted in this article. I’ve heard [...]
Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are both in prison in Iran – for having a blog. Today bloggers around the world have been asked to dedicate their sites to freeing Arash and Sigarchi and other cyber-dissidents. If every blogger did nothing but put the phrase ‘Free Mojtaba and Arash Day’ on their website, that alone [...]
His Dark Materials National Theatre, LondonPart I – 20 January 2005Part II – 17 February 2005 It’s unlikely that His Dark Materials could be held in any other theatre in the world, at least not in its current form. It’s simply a matter of technical capability. The stage at the Olivier Theatre in the National [...]
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