A couple of weeks ago I read the latest of Alexander McCall Smith's No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series; I forget its name but it follows its predecessors' gentle path.

A week or so ago I reread Chris Cunningham's The Blue Mountains Rediscovered, a shafting of the myth attributing the first crossing of the Blue Mountains (west of the penal colony at Port Jackson, the site of Sydney) to Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson in 1813, instead of to John Wilson in 1798, let alone uncounted generations of the local Aboriginal peoples.

Cheers, Rowan