No chance to post for two days. Unusual for me, I know. But business has kept me away from the keyboard. Classes on Monday and Tuesday nights followed by the ritual reading of the broadsheets have ensured I had no time to compose anything here.

Yesterday I got a call from an old friend who has made a visit to Australia and today we spent a couple of hours talking in the cafeteria of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Over a beer, we caught up. We then raced through the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman as I needed to get back to my car before the meter expired.

Her Web site contains many interesting photographs, if you feel like visiting. She still teaches, makes her own work and also undertakes commissions for magazines and corporations.