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I remember listening to this just after I migrated to Australia, the Southern Cross appears on our flag and that line "when you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you understand now why you came this way" really resonated with me at a point when I was missing my previous life in the UK.

I went to the movies yesterday, for the first time in ages, to see "Hamnet". I have read, and totally enjoyed, the book and I often worry that a movie won't do justice to the original story. I needn't have worried, this movie is excellent.

I only found this band yesterday ... but I'm already addicted :)

When you've got it you never lose it ... Richard Page (Mr Mister) still knocking it out of the park at 73 years of age.

Covers don't get much better than this

A Belated Happy New Year to everyone.

This is a book essentially for younger people I think, but I thought I'd post it here because I fully intend to buy a copy for my grandson. He is only 8 years old but, like many young children he's starting to feel the pressure of life in the 21st century and there are so messages in this book...

I just completed season 1 of "For All Mankind" on Apple TV. I read that it was classified as science fiction which I guess (in essence) it is but not in the Star Wars etc meaning of the words. It imagines a future where the space race in the 60s went in a completely different direction. But the...

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"Help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure, nothing ever lasts for ever"

My son once said to me "Aww dad that's just not cool" ... I told him to find his own word and not to try and appropriate a word that we, the boomers, invented. I don't believe there will ever be a "cooler" generation than ours ... we've done it all !!! ... and then some.

I just discovered the music of Eric Whitacre ... so emotionally uplifting.

Hi folks ... been away but (like the 'bad penny') I'm back again :) This thread caught my eye because I've started one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" projects. A while ago my daughter bought me a Kintsugi kit. This is a traditional Japanese method of repairing damaged or broken...