Peter Bridges

Oct 15, 2024 | euroagazette.com.au | Peter Bridges

By PETER BRIDGESSTUDENTS from Longwood Primary School jumped at the chance to learn more about local Indigenous culture and the practice of weaving at Ruffy’s ARTBOX installation last week. Resident artist for the month of October, Isobel Morphy-Walsh, a proud Nirim balak woman from the Taungurung people, helped the students create some of their very own stories. After creation storytelling by Iso...

Sep 24, 2024 | euroagazette.com.au | Peter Bridges

By PETER BRIDGESNEXT stop for the Strathbogie Shire ARTBOX will be the Tablelands Community Centre in Ruffy this October and November with two significant Victorian female artists, Isobel Morphy-Walsh and Shlomit Moria being showcased in the popular moving art venue. Each artist will conduct workshops, giving visitors to the Centre an opportunity to learn both weaving and whittling skills. Isobel M...

Jun 9, 2023 | calitreview.com | Peter Bridges |” “Notes

It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias grow in Cornish gardens. Bluebells and small wild orchids bloom beside the coastal path, that winds along meadow edges above the cliffs and surf. One can imagine King Arthur’s cavalry, fifteen hundred years ago, trotting along these narrow lanes between high hedgerows. What I cannot imagine is me driving any sort of vehicle up these lanes. I leave that happily to our hosts in their Land Rover.

Apr 23, 2023 | calitreview.com | Peter Bridges |” “Notes

Jack Aubrey, co-hero of twenty sea novels by Patrick O’Brian, was played admirably by Russell Crowe in the 2003 film “Master and Commander.” Aubrey’s sidekick, the naval surgeon and naturalist Stephen Maturin, was another fine actor, Paul Bettany. Many who saw the film hope for another chance to see Aubrey and Maturin on the screen–perhaps this time with Keira Knightley, who lost out when in the end “Master and Commander” was made all male, sans maidens or consorts.

Apr 14, 2023 | calitreview.com | Peter Bridges |Amy Knight

History Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite its title it will not tell them what they want to know.