Emily Cat 176

This is my first weekly post about the arts in Melbourne.  If you become a  patreon this post will be printed on Saturday allowing you to buy tickets earlier.  More events will be added each week.  Hope you can find something that interests you. 

 Back home this week.  Australia's premier poetry prize is named after this poet and l can understand why. This is a melancholy poem. The sadness is real and it is very well written.  Hope you enjoy 

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 Recently l saw 2 films in the space of a few days.  Very unusual for me but l was happy with both films. I spoke about Ocean a few weeks ago and today I'm going to talk about The Salt Path. Firstly l have to say that l didn't know this film was based on a true life book. I had never heard of, or seen, the book so l was going in with no preconceived ideas. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs play the lead roles. The film starts with them both hiding under the stairs from bailiffs who have come to reposes their farm. A business deal has gone bad and the couple are left losing everything and becoming homeless.   While hiding they spy a book about treks in England and both decide to walk one of them to Lands End. They have a tent and very little money.  Moth has also been diagnosed with a very serious illness.   The film is about the walk and the people,  and acts of kindness,  they meet. It is also a book about homelessness. I'm so grateful to ha...

I finished listening to Jane Eyre this week. That book had so much more in it. I knew the basics of the novel, but, was surprised at how complex, and involved the story was. I am now listening to Wuthering Heights and, so far so good.  I also found this book at the op shop.  I've never read any of her books. Have you read any?  I looked for it on borrow box but there are none of her novels in there and this presents me with a problem.  I see a lot of interesting booksbut don't actually read much these days. Most of the reviews l do are audiobooks.  It's the same as reading; it's just someone else reading it to me. There are several reasons why l prefer audiobooks. As l have mentioned before l don't drive and travel by public transport.  My hearing is bad and l use hearing aides and have done for the past 8/9 years. My aides are connected to my phone and borrow box is an app on my phone so l hear the audiobook through my hearing aides.  I don't need any...