Sunday, October 04, 2020

Centennial Park: Sunday Peppered with Pique Nique

 Some Picnic FOOD IS AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE. IT IS HOW YOU SHOW THOSE AROUND YOU THAT YOU CARE FOR THEM. HAVING A LOVE FOR FOOD MEANS YOU ALSO HAVE A LOVE FOR THOSE YOU ARE PREPARING IT FOR AND FOR YOURSELF



Top secret formula for a perfect pique-nique, complete with homemade Le baguettes and all the cheese


A French picnic spread laid out on blanket.
Nobody picnics like the Portuguese Bohemians ...

St Brigid is a place where political revolutions and anti discrimination initiatives were Imagined and Later implemented ... the days when men’s jobs were advertised in different section from women jobs became history when Susan Ryan fought for equality ... and won as Nique noted at the Slovenian household yesterday ...

Susan Ryan: a daughter of St Brigid

Long after Susan’s passing, Australians, and Irish-Australians in particular, will continue to be enriched by the legacy that this daughter of St Brigid has left us.’ Continue reading 


(Translated for out cousin Andrej Imrich And sister Gitka )

Was Beowulf a bro? A new, feminist version of the epic paints a fierce picture of masculine  weakeness 


The tempo of life reaches a frenzy, and yet we feel stuck. One balm for our internet-accelerated age: read old books... old books 


Meritocracy is an attractive, even inspiring ideal, but it has a dark side: It generates hubris among the winners and humiliation among the  losers 



For John Steinbeck, individuals revealed little of humanity. Our true nature could only be grasped in the plural — by groups and phalanxes   phalanxes 


Is there a better parodist and pasticheur alive than Tom Stoppard? But is he an artistic parasite? Hardly 


What was it about Nazi ideology, at least early on, that appealed to Germans? Its vagueness. People saw what they wanted to see Nazi ism