Author: coldwaterjohn

CWJ travelled extensively with his family, having worked in eleven countries over thirty years. A keen photographer, holding a Private Pilot's Licence, he focuses mainly on landscape and aerial imagery. Having worked in the Middle East extensively he follows developments in that region with particular interest, and views with growing concern, the radicalisation flowing from Islamic fundamentalism, and the intolerance for opposing views, stemming from it.

G’Day Sport!


Australian sues Council for racial discrimination in England.
I had no idea they were such delicate little flowers.
The only ones I came across in the work environment had enough self-confidence for the planet, and then some, although we did enjoy ribbing them, mainly because they seemed to think Melbourne was the centre of the universe. It stemmed apparently from their school atlases being centred on – you’ve guessed? – Australia! I grant you, his workmates do sound pretty childish to have kept it up for so many years – a few well-aimed blows at the very beginning would have put a stop to it. Do Australians rank as a “race”? Over to you, Bearsy.

Book Choices – recommended reading

Paul Torday’s “The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers”
-“hugely readable” – Sunday Times
– “for all its lightness of touch. Torday’s novel gives a strong impression of the callous indifference that moving around big sums of other people’s money tends to entail” – Times Literary Supplement. Continue reading “Book Choices – recommended reading”