{"id":125,"date":"2015-06-24T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:03:16","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/welcome-to-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blog home page updated 28 September 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CATEGORIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/uncategorized\/\">All posts (uncategorized)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/bushcare-local-plants-weeds\/\">Bushcare, native plants, weed control<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/concerts-music-heard\/\">Concerts &amp; music heard<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/music-lessons\/\">Music lessons, voice, piano<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/health-nutrition-ramblings\/\">Health &amp; nutrition ramblings<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/old-pianos\/\">Old pianos, tuning<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/parkerville-amphitheatre\/\">Parkerville Amphitheatre<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/piano-performances\/\">Piano performances<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/recordings-and-sheet-music-scores\/\">Recordings &amp; sheet music<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/piano-performances\/soul-tree-organic-cafe-music\/\">Playing at Caf\u00e9s &amp; Restaurants<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/trans-androgyne\/\">Trans &amp; androgyne, Mx &amp; Mix<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/vocal-choral-music\/\">Vocal &amp; Choral Music<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OTHER &nbsp;SITES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main site (many pages):&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmargaret.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mixmargaret.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen free to my music:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mix-margaret-dylan-jones\/sets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soundcloud.com\/mix-margaret-dylan-jones\/sets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTube channel:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCz318nZdr520zMNK6GNfnjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youtube.com\/channel\/UCz318nZdr520zMNK6GNfnjQ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parkerville Amphitheatre: a brief history 1966-2001, info about a documentary which had its first three public screenings in&nbsp;July 2015, and some myth busting:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkerville-amphitheatre.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.parkerville-amphitheatre.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmargaret.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mixmargaret.com\/blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Site list if you can\u2019t find something:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmargaret.com\/site-list.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mixmargaret.com\/site-list.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mix Margaret Dylan Jones<\/strong>, MusB (UWA), DipEd, LTCL, ATCL, AMusTCL, AMusA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pianist, accompanist, composer, lyricist. Environmental weed slayer. Teacher of piano, singing, theory, in the Perth area, Western Australia. Associate Composer, AMC. WWC Check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Androgyne (non-binary transgender). Very early adopter of the honorific title Mx (or Mix) in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WAYS  TO  SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The easiest way to share anything here is to click on the sharing links at the end of each post (for Facebook, email, LinkedIn and Google+).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alternatively, if you want to forward or use&nbsp;the link for any post here in another way, it\u2019s best to use the Permalink, not the category link (because that may change). If in doubt do a right click on the&nbsp;<strong>date<\/strong>&nbsp;of that post where it says something like \u201cPosted on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/mundaring-and-hills-piano-lessons\/\"><strong>2021-01-28<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d and use \u201cCopy&nbsp;Link.\u201d Then paste it in your Facebook or email etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The format for those links should be something like this (i.e. it must have&nbsp;the date in it): \u201c<strong>http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/20\/amphitheatre-doco-in-revelation-film-festival\/<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;which is much better than using this format: \u201chttp:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/category\/parkerville-amphitheatre\/\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you forward anything feel free to let me know where you\u2019ve sent it and I\u2019ll probably have a look there, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And please feel free to make a comment on a post, or follow my blog by becoming a free subscriber.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__supports-newline wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/?post_type=post&#038;p=125\" style=\"font-size: 16px;padding: 15px 23px 15px 23px;margin: 0; margin-left: 10px;border-radius: 0px;border-width: 1px; background-color: #113AF5; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; margin-left: 0\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choose Log in or Log out to unsubscribe<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriber-login\"><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wordpress.com\/memberships\/jwt\/?site_id=86621293&#038;redirect_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmixmargaret.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fjetpack%2Fv4%2Fsubscribers%2Fauth%3Fredirect_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmixmargaret.com%252Fblog%252Fwp-json%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F125\">Log in<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo at the top was taken inside the former site of my family&#8217;s Parkerville Amphitheatre many years ago when the documentary film crew were allowed onsite by the new owners. The official name of the main venue was Seddon Vincent Memorial Theatre for Australian Playwrights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog home page updated 28 September 2026 CATEGORIES OTHER &nbsp;SITES Main site (many pages):&nbsp;www.mixmargaret.com Listen free to my music:&nbsp;soundcloud.com\/mix-margaret-dylan-jones\/sets YouTube channel:&nbsp;youtube.com\/channel\/UCz318nZdr520zMNK6GNfnjQ Parkerville Amphitheatre: a brief history 1966-2001, info about a documentary which had its first three public screenings in&nbsp;July 2015, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/welcome-to-my-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-welcome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rs9D-21","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}