W.H. Auden's punchline on personal space applies, if not as vehemently, to the cluttered outer ramparts of my life. Once the barbarians pass the gate, nothing is quite the same. I don't like to think I'm a curmudgeon, but I might be wrong ... [Personal/Space] -- P.
[Feathers of Hope] Davis, California is not a tourist destination...
[Mulubinba Moments] Visitors can affect my view of place positively or negatively.....
[Mulubinba Moments (Geoff)] Forty years ago, visitors to Australia were rare and celebrity visitors even more so. It was common for foreign celebrities to be swarmed by jounalists in the arrivals lounge at Sydney Airport. And wincingly predictable was the question “What do you think of Australia?”. Vivian Leigh in 1948 famously replied "I can't see it, you're standing in my way." But our nation's attitude to visitors is changing...
[London and the North] I realise now there is a world of difference between being with visitors to London and visitors to Yorkshire....