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Post #116 Monday 19 August 2019 – A new coat

August 18, 2019 by MG Leave a Comment

Posted in: Art, Clothing, Letters from America, Music, Selfie

Letters from America

Monday 19 August 2019

I posted this selfie on Twitter last week. This is my new coat. I had to concede my favourite old pale trench coat was finished. Such a lovely, quality thing I bought in Double Bay ages ago, I had finally worn it out.

All this sentiment reminded me of the improbable scene in La Boheme where the old coat gets serenaded before being pawned to buy medicines for the rapidly declining Mimi, who is flushed with TB.
Caruso’s version of the song – The Coat Song:

https://tinyurl.com/yxomvnps

It’s a little while since I went to the opera. But it’s a much longer while since I bought student rush tickets for $5. In those days the opera theatre was often half empty. The audience always included elegant Hungarian women in mothball furs though. It’s great the opera is so popular now but it’s so sad the days of student rush are over. Those heavily discounted tickets gave impoverished students the incredible privilege of going to the opera several times a week when the season was on – what a life!
xx MG

Wednesday afternoon

July 26, 2017 by MG Leave a Comment

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Wednesday afternoon winter sunshine. It’s not a complex proposition 🙂

Post #48 Sunday 23 July 2017 – The Quadrangle

July 23, 2017 by MG Leave a Comment

Posted in: Adventure, Flowering trees, Gallery, Letters from America, Selfie, Urban landscape

Letters from America

Sunday 23 July 2017

Yesterday I went to a small event at Sydney University. It was held to celebrate the planting of two new flowering trees in the Main Quadrangle. These trees replace the old jacaranda which graced the Quad for years but which had expired.

It was a glorious day and the sandstone buidings looked beautiful.

The alumni organisation gave commemorative bagdes to guests (including to your glamorous aunt MG).

So this picture is a selfie – my phone camera insists on putting rays in which gives me a halo (oh dear).

Here is one of the trees, the flame tree.

And here is the badge. It has a stylised depiction of the contrasting colours of the flame and jacaranda flowers.

MG xx
in an almost perfect world

Brett Whiteley

November 25, 2016 by MG 3 Comments

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Late afternoon today I took this selfie, twisted around a bit so that my arse is at risk of looking like one of Brett Whiteley’s designer executed arses. There could be worse things 🙂

So you can picture the scene: it was beautifully sunny after more than a week of being sick for me, and the sun made the skin really warm and shiny.

Like having a cold in summer, if you are sad in the summer, that is sad. So look after yourselves and each other – so says your glamorous aunt ♥

Here is one of the Whiteley bottoms (posing and being drawn) – purely for reference 🙂 It’s a drawing done at the house in Lavender Bay.