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Post #116 Monday 19 August 2019 – A new coat

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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

Post #48 Sunday 23 July 2017 – The Quadrangle

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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

 

Don’t forget to miss me

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The title of this post is taken from the title of a song written and performed by the Canadian musician Harry Manx.  He is an absolute favourite of mine.  He was recently in Australia for quite a long tour and although I did not see him (tickets were prohibitively expensive), I did find a nice video made of him performing this song at The Basement.

Why am I telling you all this?  So you will follow the instructions…  and don’t forget to miss me 🙂

 

Here is the link to Harry Manx performing the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHjo4dIkn-8

And this is a link to perhaps my favourite piece in which Manx accompanies himself on his wonderful purpose built instrument which is a cross between sitar and slide guitar.  If I get organised to do a slow strip tease for posting to the website then this will be the music I use.  It’s called Crazy Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA2Adby5UDI

MG xx