Over a Pepsi light

[Margaret Port]

Steven,

I grew up in Sydney and remember my old grandfather sitting on the veranda at Ramsgate on Christmas day, after our traditional lunch with all the "rellies" waiting for the "southerly" (wind) to blow at four pm to cool off. In those days it never failed. For your holiday weather you might have to settle for interesting, rather than good, and be ready to beat a hasty retreat to air conditioning.

Did you come across Eric & Roxanne Minchin's work at Broken Hill? I love her landscapes. Huge, perfectly blended and graduated brilliant blue skies, tiny amount of land at the bottom of the canvas, with perfectly detailed rocks and plants in ochres and oranges. I've been out that way twice but I must admit I'm a coast person, have to be near water.