sydneyboy

I was just looking at the latest COVID figures for Spain. On 26 July over 61,600 and the previous 7 day average about 25,500. I don’t think I will be enjoying the delights of Thermas any time soon.

I agree with all you have said. How I remember his Andrea Chenier and Parsifal in concert here in Sydney not to mention a recital. Nights that I will never forget. We have been incredibly fortunate to hear him 3 times in his prime.

Thank you very much. Most interesting. I saw Herr Kaufmann a few years ago in Otello at Covent Garden and like this Munich Tristan marshalled his vocal resources and does not let “rip”. It’s an obvious a sign of his sensitive artistry.It’s a tragedy the way opera companies such as Munich can cast an opera like Tristan at such a high level then leave the production to a producer with a “concept “ and murder a masterpiece. Like Munich, Opera Australia has had a nightmare 2 years with stop start schedules unfortunately more stop than start. They had a hastily arranged winter season in Sydney of 3 Verdi operas Attila, Otello and Aida and later Tales of Hoffman. After a few performances of Attila and Aida the season has had to be cancelled due to a city lockdown after a COVID spike. Their annual money making pop offering this year was to be Phantom of the Opera later in the year but this too has been cancelled. The company is in an almost diabolical financial state.

He does in photo 2 but the rest are OK.

Your forgiven. 😂 I like your taste.

Just beautiful

She is the major talking point in Australia (apart from the wretched COVID). A pleasant distraction. The first Australian in 41 years to win the women’s singles.

The link doesn’t work here but put shanemuscle.com into Google.

This gentleman has just come to my attention: shanemuscle.com My idea of hot.

Australian Ash Barty has won the the women's singles. Congratulations Ash!

My first trip to Amsterdam was 1972 and returned in 1974 and 1975. In my 20’s experiencing Thermas I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I my 50’s I had a very similar supernatural experience when I experienced Lagoa in São Paulo.

Hayden Monteleone. He has some wonderful YouTube videos. Recommended for Hayden fans. Who isn’t?

An example of how times have changed. I flew home Acapulco to Sydney on a 707 which had about 10 passengers! Imagine that today!

Good old Hayden. He is certainly a stunner.

Mine was 49 years ago, 3 and a half months in Europe with 2 weeks in Mexico on the way back. How I remember my first night in Venice! Magical! The Swiss train rides particularly the Jungfrau. Amsterdam, the DOK Club and Thermas 2. The latter almost defied belief. Ah memories!

I would be interested in escorts opinion of Planet Romeo. The radical changes they made to the site a few years ago, to put in the vernacular, stuffed it up completely. It is the most user unfriendly gay site I know of. My favourite London escort used to get most of his clients from Planet Romeo but encountered a dramatic drop off after the changes and had to start advertising on Rentmen as well.

Could I put the question this way. How many clients of escorts are in their 20’s and built like super fit athletes? If that was a requirement of an escort I think they would starve.

A cutie.

I believe they were. Australia sent its regular army supplemented by 20 year old “national servicemen “ in other words conscripts. The war was eagerly supported by the Australian people and the appalling slogan “we’re fighting them up there instead of down here” accepted. Attitudes to war changed, not through careful reasoning, but because of the arrival home of an ever increasing number of body bags containing the 20 year old conscripts. One of the most disgraceful episodes in the second half of the 20th century.

Nixon’s mother named all her sons after Kings of England hence the title.

Judging by its title this book on Nancy Reagan it sounds like hagiography not a serious biography. I think we should save our money. It would be better spent on a new book on Richard Nixon by Michael Dobbs “King Richard, Nixon and Watergate an American Tragedy.” Mr Dobbs was interviewed on Australian radio during the week. It sounds fascinating. I googled the reviews and they are universally excellent and the book is a major work of scholarship.

That was Harold Holt. When President Johnson visited Australia Holt famously said that Australia would “go all the way with LBJ.”In respect to the Vietnam War. Stand up comics with dirty minds had a field day with that quote. He drowned trying to impress a new girlfriend with his athletic prowess on Portsea Beach. With all respect to dead a useless Prime Minister.

The title of the biography is The Triumph of Nancy Reagan. That title is an oxymoron, more moron than oxy.

I wonder if this biography makes reference to the fact she slept with a gun under her pillow and always consulted her astrologists before making an important decision.