Autumn in Marvellous Melbourne 2014 – Balmy Beautiful Days
It might sound a bit bizarre the way weather conditions are at the moment, balmy and beautiful days in marvellous Melbourne, but before winter’s icy fingers get a vice like grip on your front door,...
View ArticleJanet Walker Rediscovers – Murder In The Telephone Exchange
Crime Novelist June Wright (1919-2012) Crime novels, like everything else, go in and out of fashion – what was hip yesterday can be decidedly unhip today. In the book trade, publishers decide which...
View ArticleLiving Life in Full Bloom, Elizabeth Murray – Janet’s Review
Elizabeth Murray in artist Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny in France, a wonderful place that she photographs annually and physically helped to restore Simplicity in western society life styles is a...
View ArticleThe Housekeeper’s Tale by Tessa Boase – Janet Walker Reviews
Enamelled Chatelaine: Painted enamel on copper with gilt metal mounts and attachments, 1765-1775, a waist hung ornament that was necessary ‘equipage’ for the lady in charge of a man’s castle – courtesy...
View ArticleWhen the Queen Came to Town – Palace Cinemas, Janet’s Review
Photograph from the official commemorative book, ‘Royal Visit to Australia of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, 1954′, shows the Queen wearing the Norman...
View ArticleVale PD James, Baroness of Holland Park – Woman of Influence
Queen of Crime Fiction, aged 90, with plenty still to say Baroness Phyllis Dorothy James of Holland Park passed away peacefully on November 27, 2014. Not an obituary of much moment except to the...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, Happy New Year – Chilling Out in Style
On Christmas Day as we enjoy a day of being with the people we love and care about it would be good to engage in a conversation about the Christmas message of caring, courage, compassion and love. It...
View ArticleHermitage Masterpieces at the NGV – Janet Walker’s Review
Jean-Antoine HOUDON French 1741–1828 Catherine II 1773 marble 90.0 x 50.0 x 32.0 cm The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg Transferred from the Stroganov Palace, Leningrad, 1928 Great, grand,...
View ArticleThe Seekers Musical – Janet, Desperately Seeking Georgy Girl
It’s not often you get the chance to relive a happy time from your teen years without having to relive the angst and acne. I got that chance a couple of weeks ago when I tripped across the lawn of...
View ArticleVale Janet Walker – The Circle’s Champion for Joy and Truth
Janet Walker, Special Features Writer Victoria, The Culture Concept Circle (2013-2015) Vale Janet Walker, those who loved you and your achievements will long remember you. Our wonderful Special...
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