Monthly Archives: December 2014

Bookstores are largely dead – killed by Amazon and the ereader. Especially when you consider the logistics – in a country such as Australia, at the arse end of the world, electronic delivery is always going to trump shipping containers … Continue reading →

Last weekend it rained. Seriously rained. But by Sunday morning it had cleared enough for us to consider a drive out. We tossed a coin between a loop inland or a dash down to the coast and back for a … Continue reading →

As we know, Latin didn’t die with the western Roman empire. It continued in use as the language of the church, and by and by became the language of scholarship. After all many of the Renaissance masters and later wrote … Continue reading →