Welcome To Annie’s Blog
Hi, my name is Annie. Welcome to my book reviews, ponderings on life, holiday reviews and occasional movie reviews.
The image of this painting ‘Girl with her dog’ reminds me so much of all the things I love… dogs and beaches. Thank you to the artist.
My Recent Posts
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Peacetime tragedies do not come more calamitous, devastating and eternally heartbreaking than the sinking (and consequent large loss of lives) of the Titanic ocean liner in 1912. All this time later (some 114 years), folk will still talk of that fateful incident. Many of us remember the James Cameron (director, writer, producer, editor) epic 1997…
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“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions” are the wise and truthful words written by English playwright, actor and poet, William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), in his ethereally haunting and timeless play, Hamlet. The lives of the families living in the (fictional) coastal utopian enclave of “Pirriwee Peninsula north of Sydney”…
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When I was growing up in Australia (a country that was in the Commonwealth, and still is) in the 1970s, the British royal family, and Queen Elizabeth II in particular, held a magnetic allure. Life for them (as observed by we mere ‘peasants’ in heat-driven and perpetually sunny Antipodean climes in Australia) looked to be a…
