Mike's Site

This site should bring together some of my various presences on the Internet -- you can see stuff I've written, photographs I've taken, and favourite pages that I like to visit.

I hope you find something of interest here.

This that and the other

  The other day, I was complaining how busy I was to somebody and they said “So what do you do all day now that you’re retired?” Let’s take yesterday, which happens to be a Thursday. I had been late getting to sleep the night before,... more

Previous blog entries:
Dec 8	-	Goodbye Insulin, Hello Byetta
Dec 8	-	November is a novel month
Jul 7	-	Goodbye to good books

Theme music

Well known theme tunes, many from BBC radio shows.

Previous playlists:
Dec 18	-	Doctor Who and me
Nov 12	-	Miscellaneous
Sep 22	-	Australian radio remembered

Tas_Govt_House_VOD.mp4

Tasmania's Government House is considered one of the finest in the British Empire. This is a segment of the television series 'Collectors'.

Previous videos:
Dec 19	-	Gardening Australia - Tasmania.flv
Dec 1	-	bossa_nova.mp4

The Seagull by Anton Chekov

"A dramatic play about the romantic and artistic conflicts between: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. Chekhov’s masterpiece is... more

Previous reviews:
Jan 3	-	Old Time Radio
Mar 14	-	Theatre Organ Showcase
Feb 17	-	The Hammer of Eden