Almanac Music: ‘Pink and Purple Wisteria’ – Songs Involving Flowers

June 14, 2024 by 173 Comments

In this week’s installment of KD’s long-running series about popular song themes, the topic is songs involving flowers; as usual, readers’ input is warmly welcomed.

Almanac Music: Songs About Songs

June 23, 2023 by 26 Comments

In this week’s music piece, as part of an ongoing series concerning popular songs, KD discusses ‘songs about songs’, and warmly encourages readers to add their own selections, as well as further discussion.

Almanac Humour: He’s Got The Whole World In His Pants – Mondegreens

August 20, 2021 by 22 Comments

In this Friday’s column, KD writes about the unusual and typically amusing phenomenon of mondegreens – those mishearings/misinterpretations usually associated with songs and poems. [Thanks to ‘Swish’ Schwerdt for using the word in a response to a previous post of mine; it inspired this piece – KD]

Tennis and Eternity

January 31, 2017 by 5 Comments

Under the glorious elms at Yarrawonga, Dips ponders the essentials of life; generational change and mortality, tennis, music, and realising, as Shakespeare wrote, that “life is but a walking shadow.”