Maniototo Landscapes

Rock and Pillar Range

Rock and Pillar Range

I spent the day up in the Maniototo area exploring and shooting landscapes. …


Te Anau

Driving to Mt Nicholas Station

Driving to Mt Nicholas Station


F# ASP.NET Core Dockerfile

The base Dockerfile I use for ASP.NET Core web applications. This is suitable for both F# and C# apps. Below I detail some design decisions and Docker best practices.

Link to this section Dockerfile

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:5.0-alpine AS …

Lawrence Durrell - Further Reading

For people who fell in love with the Alexandria Quartet or the Avignon Quintet and would like to explore more of that Hellenic world.

I found Diego Delgado Duatis’s doctoral thesis The Hellenic World of Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell a superb read. It paints a picture as to what as going on …


The Return of the Exile - George Seferis

September 2 2021 · poems george-seferis hellenic

George Seferis. Athens, 1938

“My old friend, what are you looking for?
After years abroad you’ve come back
with images nourished
under foreign skies
far from your own country.”

“I’m looking for my old garden;
the trees comes to my waist
and the hills resemble terraces …