by Virginia Lloyd | May 26, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Apple Girl enjoyed a night out the theatre last night with her actress-singer-playwright friend Susan, from PlayGroup. For the very un-Gotham price of $27.50 we saw a brilliant two-hander called The Receipt, which arrived in New York direct from Melbourne’s...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 21, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Saturday was the inaugural Dance Parade which grooved its way down a slightly damp 5th Avenue to end in a dance party in Washington Square Park. Dancers in the park included Simi Linton (above left, with banner), her husband David (aka Fuzzy, above right; the roller...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 17, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Standing on the subway platform en route to pick up my newly re-strung tennis racquet, a handsome man approached me. He said something, but as I was wearing my iPod headphones at the time I couldn’t hear a word. After I removed one of the buds from my ear, he...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 17, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Within a couple of weeks we’ve gone from persistently chilly to downright toasty – yesterday I actually heard people complaining about how hot it was. Human beings are marvellous creatures, aren’t we? Given the lack of visuals on Apple Girl recently...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 14, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
These words came out of the mouth of a financial planner whose advice I had recently sought. During our brief conversation I casually mentioned purchasing a pair of shoes a few days earlier, and he reacted with this beauty. The gist of his comment was that...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 11, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Sitting around a table the other night at a dinner party for a friend’s birthday, I was ambushed by a spray of questions about Australian fauna. “What’s the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo?” “Have you ever had a pet wombat? Do...