Thank God it's the weekend

As Clive would say, it's been a bit of a pooey week - hence the demonstrative title today. Never mind. A few more cups of tea and a hot tub tonight and all should be right in the world, well - better, anyway.

On we go...

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In the Weekend Australian Magazine is an intriguing story of a lawyer from Wagga Wagga alleging that J.K. Rowling copied his client’s ideas in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. You can read the article and make up your own mind, as I have no idea. One of my proudest achievements is that I have not read one word of any of the Harry Potter books. I prefer Kenneth Grahame and Frances Hodgson Burnett – with The Economist thrown in every now and then for some light reading.

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Still in the Weekend Oz (the paper this time), the Travel section has a nice piece on the architecture of Hong Kong “it’s most striking feature” says the writer. I would agree. By day, it certainly is, but be sure not to miss the spectacle that is Hong Kong at night – a really uplifting sight. If you have never been to Hong Kong – go. Before you do, to whet your appetite, try to find a copy of Lonely Planet's 'Hong Kong' DVD, part of Lonely Planet's 'six degrees' series.

Hong Kong - striking by day and night. Photo: Yours truly.

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We lost entertainment great Don Lane this week. He was born Morton Donald Isaacson in New York in 1933, and came to Australia in the sixties where he became a part of what was certainly a golden era of Australian television, an era the likes of which, sadly, we are unlikely to see again. Anyone who uproots and emigrates and makes a name for themself in another country is worthy of great admiration, in my books. To live and work in another country is actually a secret ambition that I have always harboured – although, I hasten to add, I certainly have no designs on a career either on the stage, or in front of a television camera. 

RIP Don, and omne solum forti patria est, as you so successfully demonstrated.

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