The Duke of Conceptual Architecture

Mum has been in town for a few days. Took her to Parap markets on Saturday morning to soak up the vibe, check out a few stalls and get some food.We hit some of the fresh food stall first and Mum was impressed with the tropical fruits and veg on show – bittergourd, jack fruit,…

So, my impending move to Darwin is getting closer and with each day so the thoughts regarding how I plan to transplant my life to this distant city become more concrete. You can only make a decision like this if you can imagine yourself there, but this does not always translate into the practical reality…

There’s not really a great deal to be said of our holiday to Gili Meno. Well, not a great deal that can’t or hasn’t been captured in photos. I mainly wanted to use this post as a way of making available the photos I posted on Facebook that I didn’t want to put up on…

I love this recipe because it’s so simple and yet so tasty. The original recipe contains mozzarella, but I think this makes the dish a little bland. Using a hard cheese like parmesan or pecorino makes it more tangy and complements the cherry tomatoes and olives. I tried this dish with a hot pancetta too…

I like word games……except for Scrabble. I don’t care what you think about that, but if there was a living to be made out of playing word games, I’d probably pursue it. I’d never been good at Jumble, but I decided to load it onto the iPhone anway – I need as many games as…

So, thanks to Mick, I found a great hosting deal with just host and have now moved my sites to their new domain: bernardleckning.com. I’ll eventually develop the home page into something akin to a CV, once there is enough of a professional life to speak of. In the meantime I’m thinking of installing WordPress…

Since the original blog is completely busted, I had to get rid of it completely. I have, however, retained the posts and imported them into this blog. So, everything prior to and including the 2nd of January, 2007 is from the old blog. This includes some classics like my attempted conversation with a spammer (here,…

…you have so little clean clothes that you wear your wedding socks and thongs …when you’re broke and you decide to open that nice bottle of red you’ve had for a year and were supposed to keep for five …your iPhone is so rockin’ the cops come knockin’ …an Italian restaurant has to remind you…

It’s probably too soon after my wedding to be saying such a thing, but it’s true. Tempranillo reds are really drinkable. I’ve tried a couple of Australian made Tempranillo from Brown Brothers and Little Wine Co., but the Spanish drop I had recently was just delicious – I could taste dark berries and chocolate, I…

While I’m not intimately familiar with the work of Freddie Hubbard, I’ll never forget seeing this jazz great live at Sunset/Sunside in Paris in 2001. I had read a couple of old articles about Hubbard and was pretty amazed at the breadth of styles in which he played. But I was most impressed by his…

Much has happened since my last post, but in summary: I left Alice Springs to start my PhD at Macquarie University in the Department of Sociology and Centre for Research on Social Inclusion. Sara stayed in Alice, but I’ve now come back to help her pack and move back to Sydney. So, obviously there is…

My life is pretty boring, I realised today. The world, in my direct experience, has thrown very few things at me that truly prick my imagination or baffle the crap out of me. That was until today… But, first I need to provide some context… A few weeks ago, the hard drive on my iBook…

Assstaint?!?! Yes, ASSSTAINT! It is my word of the week. It’s one of those filler words (a.k.a. adjectives) that we use when we can’t seem to find the right word to match one’s sentiments. Instead, we use a word whose sound can be manipulated through tone, pitch, inflection, etc to mean whatever the hell we…

It was so uneventful that I even forgot to mention it in yesterday’s post! Actually, I had a pretty relaxing and enjoyable day. A picnic with Sara at the Telegraph Station at lunch and then dinner at The Lane in the evening. In between: we lazed about the house and danced to Outkast (as one…

I’ve been pretty slack lately with the blog. This is mainly owing to my efforts to catch every possible virus going around town at the moment. And then just as I was starting to recover from going 20 rounds with every known virus in central Australia I ended up breaking the knuckle bone on my…

Over the past 6 weeks, I’ve been trying to perfect a recipe for faratas. Faratas are usually served with a curry. I usually use tear a small bit of farata off and use it to pick up the curry – in other words, no utensils are necessary if you’re eating this in the company of…

Being the lazy bastard I am, this post is going to be a slightly better than random collection of ‘things’ that have been going on or that I have ‘discovered’ recently. To give it some semblance of coherence I’m calling this collection a snapshot – a constellation of images and words that appear incoherent, but…