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In the footsteps of Captain Wales

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There are a few obscure references in that title!   The first is to "The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz" an excellent book by Michaela Wong about President Mobutu of the DRC.  (That title is itself a reference to the main character in "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.) The second is to Prince Harry's preferred name when he was in the British Army.  He visited Footscray on Wednesday this week as we did on Friday. We visited different parts of the area to Harry, and I doubt I'd have got on to the turf of Whitten Oval.  Our reason for visiting was to explore the Heavenly Queen Temple, which we had seen from the train as we went to Williamstown a few weeks ago.  A helpful staffer from the City of Maribyrnong had provided us with a map of the area. Our route was starting at the station and more or less following the orange line, diverting to the yellow line, then the blue line and back on the green line.  These nice little cottages were in the area around th...
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April Music and other performances

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This began with a visit to St Paul's Cathedral for an organ recital.  We took the grand-daughters along as it was still school holidays.  I really like some organ music - did I hear you say Bach?  This did not feature any of that tribe, but a much more modern set of 5 composers, 3 of whom I had never heard of.   Oh dear: not a good introduction to classical music for the girls.   It did not begin well as we arrived about 10 minutes before kick-off to find the preceding service was still happening: in fact they had just got to Communion , so the concert was 20 minutes late starting.  Then the music was IMO boring and somewhat  discordant.  We threw in the towel after 4 of the works. Potter Museum Frances wasn't sure about this, but as we had never visited the Museum and many other things were booked out we thought it worth a try.  The Museum is in the Melbourne Uni campus, at the end of the tram lines.  The ride up was very crow...
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Some lesser outings

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 This post will include some snaps and commentary about outings not otherwise report during our March sojourn to St Kilda Rd Albert Park The first visit was to the South end of the Park which was not used by the private interests of the AGPC and thus outside the cordon (un)sanitaire.  This opened up a few of the ovals but was of insufficient interest for me to take photographs.  The main thing was how quiet everywhere was with very few people working on demolishing fences and stands: I suspect the corporate gooses were still hoping that one of the Arabian races would be redirected here so didn't want to take stuff down which they might have to re-erect. My second visit (on 19/3) was after the area was (in theory) opened up for public access.  It seemed that the opening was basically the walking path on the edge of the Lake.  The race track was closed off because a few people were driving machines around.   The first image is of one of the bridges acros...
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