Why is Ginger cat on my profile? Besides the fact that I am an ailurophile? It is because I was using his pic as an avatar on some of my music sites - so people who know Ginger from other sites will know it is me here (crazy logic?). And people who don't like cats usually won't stay to read on. Plus I don't own a digital camera anymore; when I did I was usually the one taking photos anyway! If you need to see pics of me, my pics are in the public pics section or else you'll need to send me a new camera.<<..>>
"There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles." [with thanks to UK-based NZ Writer Nikki Cole!] What's your favorite chocolate??? My sister lives around the corner from Chocolatier in Melbourne;> And I've always loved Haigh's Butter (Dark) Truffles. Koko Black creates four very moreish truffles.
<3<3I love a Shiraz or Cabernet or Pinot<3<3
I hope you've come across the Way Out West Roots Music Club website, because I got that online. Rob Rowe (my cousin!) got the club started and has done a fantastic job getting the musos and the public together over the years.
I grew up in Tassie and still remember my first taste of 'live' music with some guy and his Fender guitar and Fender amp playing at a wedding at the Evandale Memorial Hall in the sixties. I seem to recall surf music on my dad's valve radio and somehow tipping it onto the floor as a two year old trying to find out where that groove was coming from. I have lived in Melbourne, Australia, for most of my adult life but spent a bit of time south of Sydney in my teen years. My previous work includes broadcaster for ABC Radio 83-94, TV Producer for Sportsworld 95-96, Skills.net & GOVic 98-04 (State Library of Victoria). I'm enrolled as a full time student for a Master of Arts (Communications) course at RMIT at the moment. When I visited the states in 1986 I was able to tour the (tiny) Fender factory and head office in SoCal at the time; and thanks to Marg O'Loughlin it was one of the highlights of my trip. Handmade Strats; who'd have thought?
I love my guitar music: blues and country through all types of roots music; flamenco to funk; classical to metal. You'd be surprised what I listen to! I'm told I have a great baritone singing voice but don't use it enough. Make sure you search out the Way Out West Roots Music Club in Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), I hope to see you there someday; Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society; my friends Shane and staff at BMusic in Gawler, Adelaide, South Australia; and Davis Music in Footscray.<<>>
By the way: did you say hello to Ginger Cat? Yes, I am a crazy cat person! Ginger adopted me over a period of about 5 months; he turned up with a much older cat we've called Barney. So from being that stray 'ginger cat' in the backyard he became that... Ginger Cat (who loves to cuddle up when I have to read boring text books for uni)! Although I love cats I will stop and pat and talk to just about any animal or bird - just to look in their eye and share a special moment in time with them.
