Having lived and worked in Japan myself many years ago, and having taught many many students from Japan over the years, I was already...

I thought I'd try publishing episodes as a part of the blog, partly to encourage people to subscribe to my website, and also hopefully to...

Having written a blog post about some of the common themes I've come across about migrants to Tasmania, I thought I'd also write about...

I have just finished listening through my latest interview with a lady who was born in Czechoslovakia, and which today is called Czechia...

I mostly started this blog to add a few thoughts and feelings about some of the photography I do mainly for my own pleasure from time to...

One of my New's Resolutions is to really ramp up my output for the podcast, which has been pretty meagre of late, with just one episode...

So with 2020 nearly over, I thought I'd do the usual thing of reflecting a bit on the year past and try and convey a few of my own...

At this time of year here in Tasmania we are often blessed with long, lingering twilights with gorgeous, golden and orange light and...

It seems like it's been a particularly wild and windy spring in Southern Tasmania, and so I'd pretty much given up on going out at night...

In some ways I feel like the spring weather could be a bit of a metaphor for the state of the world lately - pretty lousy, but when we...

This week, the 13th of October, marked 9 years since my mother died, and so it's made me reflect again on the whole grieving process and...

In theory, spring is season of flowers, baby animals , of freshness, new growth and longer evenings. In reality, in Tasmania, it often...

I guess for those of us who embark upon a big and ambitious undertaking that seems like a good idea at the time, there come those moments...

After something of a flurry of activity for my 177 Nations of Tasmana podcast, I thought I'd write a few thoughts on the challenges of...

I thought I'd start a blog specific to my 177 Nations of Tasmania podcast both to keep followers up to date with what's going on and for...

I really should be doing this blog more often than I have been lately as it is both therapeutic and important for helping me reflect on...

Ok, so it's been a while since I wrote an entry here. This is partly due to lack of inspiration and partly due to having my attention...

About a month ago I started a podcast with the idea of doing interviews with at least one person from every nationality represented in...

I have resisted getting a drone for a while now. It seems too many people buy them and then use them a few times and then either lose...

It's been a while since I've done a video for A Piano of Tasmania aka Kelvin Smith. The latest one was a an hour and a half drive down to...