Best of the Transparent Hummingbird
August 7, 2020
today i shall go to rippon lea: i hear tell there are fabulous gardens.
(rippon lea estate, melbourne, 11th february 2017)
August 7, 2020
�Regret is indeed useful and virtuous, and not only allowable but necessary, when it tends to the amendment of life, or to admonition of error which we may be again in danger of committing. But a very small part of the moments spent in meditation on the past, produce any reasonable caution or salutary sorrow.� (from The Idler, no 72.
August 7, 2020
“Pure democrats of taste are unicorns.”
August 7, 2020
[Nurse, putting on a band-aid on his arm after drawing the Minz-Father’s blood.]: Please apply pressure.The Minz-Father balls his hand into a fist and clenches.
Us: !! They meant, press down on the spot!
(Minz-Father in hospital, Day One, getting a knee-replacement.)