The Three Wise Men are on their way to see the new baby born to Mary and Joseph in a stable at Bethlehem. (Matthew 2: 1 – 12). They are sometimes known as the Three Kings from the East. They do not arrive to see the child for themselves until thirteen days after the winter [...]

Click here to read more of this article

The magnificent thirteen metre gold and ivory statue of Zeus was found inside his temple at Olympia on a throne described by a contemporary ‘as an elaborate structure of cedar wood, laid in with ebony and richly adorned with valuable stones and sculptures’. His figure required so much ivory Philo of Byzantium claimed it was [...]

Click here to read more of this article

Mrs. Wallis Simpson, later the Duchess of Windsor, was an enthusiast of jewellery, fashion and the prevailing modern style. The stunning jewellery fashioned for her by Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Belperron and Harry Winston and given to her in love by her Prince, King, or was it a Duke, inscribed ‘My Wallis from her David’ says it all. What more could any woman want than a man who would give up being a King for love.

Click here to read more of this article

Today is Wattle Day. I was reminded of it as I traversed the Hume Highway from Melbourne to Sydney on Monday. Driving through previously devastated bush fire areas of Victoria, great swathes of bushland were busy regenerating, but none so fast as the bushes crowned by the fluffy golden bloom, whose showy bracts of flowers [...]

Click here to read more of this article