The fountain in Rundle Mall is over 100 years old and seems at odds with the recent modernisation of ‘The Mall’. I am so glad they made it an integral part of our modern mall along with other hints of a bygone age. As I walk though Adelaide’s premier retail precinct I am awed by […]
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Friday night at the Wheatsheaf Hotel we experienced a double, double treat of local Adelaide musicians and folk music with the combined talents of the Fiddle Chicks, Emma Luker and Dee Trewartha and the trad music duo of Ray Smith and Kerryn Schofield. Apologies for the labels guys! More photos to follow but first of […]
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The first time I came across locks as icons of commitment was many years ago while travelling. On a bridge over the River Seine were hundreds of padlocks locked to the structure. Some were engraved, some were very old, some but not many had tags and all were resolutely locked in place assuming their keys […]
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The University of Adelaide Coat of Arms emblazoned with the universe motto ‘Sub Cruce Lumen’, meaning ‘The light (of learning) under the (Southern) Cross’, might indeed carry a hidden message. Perhaps the symbolic text represented on the feature book is nothing more than artistic scrawl. Or perhaps there is more to it. Look close and […]
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Or perhaps now you don’t … This bizarre looking device has seen to seeing that unseeing people get to see again. It probably has done so for decades. The Bausch and Lomb Green’s Genothalmic Refractor was introduced in 1934 following a long design gestation from the original Clyde L. Hunsicker invention, the ‘optometer’. It went […]
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