“It’s amazing what a lesbian with an umbrella can do,” the brightly dressed middle aged woman joked. We had somehow, by chance, found ourselves at an outside bar near Victoria Square, just before the start of the Feast Parade, Adelaide’s Gay Pride festival.
The ornate fabrics making up the kimonos, obis (waistbands) and kanzashi (hair ornaments) of these maiko on their graduation to become fully fledged geiko (Kyoto equivalent of geisha) – mere outward symbols of an inner grace. The ornate kanji typography on sake barrels in Kyoto, Japan – post graduation celebration? Arigatou gozaimasu. In response to The Daily Post’s
French champagne in the backyard. What’s the occasion? Saturday. Is that reason enough? We found the marble table on the street. Its previous owners had covered it with a lacquer (and ruined its appearance). A lot of rubbing and scraping later and now look at it! Fit for a Saturday treat. In response to The



