Summer is still a vivid memory, but the last few weeks we have fallen straight into a cold snap. With my crutches, for a few weeks I felt like Richard III. I wanted to stumble up to kids at bus stops, point a crooked finger and go “Now is the winter of our discontent…” It’s […]

I am sitting in a cafe in Montpanasse, on my own, after several coffees and beers. And god knows how many more cigarettes. I just spent €200 at FNAC. The radio is playing You’re Beautiful. Its not helping my mood. Bottom line, I don’t know where I will be next year. It’s now a major […]

I am in Paris, again. Here sorting out last minute visa stuff. I’m so utterly seduced by this place. Not in a teenage crush way either. I’d like to think it’s a more mature love. I know its flaws. But I love the city inside. I’m ready for her to grow old and fat and […]

It’s been an amazing year. On my birthday last year I had a day off. I remember a phone call I got at Belfield train station, from a great friend, laughing there on the platform, early evening in the impending Sydney summer. It was one of my last rehearsals with the Reservations that day, and […]

I know I’m not the only one has ever made the bold claim that I could be happy in a country house in the middle of nowhere. As long as I had access to Amazon and the like. Being homebound, I have been putting that to the test. The most important of which is ordering […]