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Month: July 2018

Lemurs (1st in series): Ring-tailed

Looks rather like a Paris-styled raccoon.

(Primatologist Alison Jolly’s 1967 description of Madagascar’s emblematic mammal)

Lemur catta – the ring-tailed lemur – is the most “adaptable” of circa 107 lemur species.

However, like other lemurs, its post-1967 story is one of potentially catastrophic decline, mostly via destruction of suitable habitat.

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Cellar doors: a modestly-magnificent seven

No faux chateaux or Californianesque excess here: these seven Australian wineries are grand, not grandiose.

All will almost certainly offer you a lovely location, and a warm welcome from knowledgeable, unpretentious folks.

Each has a range of genuinely-excellent wines that begin at prices well south of $30.

Three will also serve you a delicious, affordable lunch.

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Even (actually, especially) if you dislike most “jazz”…

Here are two albums you should hear.

They offer no tediously-roosterish displays of “technique”.

Neither are they lamely “hip”, or tepidly “smooth”.

Both are uncommonly beautiful.

Crucial to their success is something rarely mentioned by reviewers of “jazz” releases: real friendships, sustained over many years.

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