What would you do, if you lost your long-term partner? How would you cope with the grief? My Armidale Teachers' College classmate, Ian, writes about just this. Feel free to [...]
Coronavirus (COVID-19) SARS-CoV-2, The Australian Government is managing the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia as a health emergency. A glossary of terms in daily use in the media in Australia in [...]
Words in a book... Esther learnt of my existence and found me through words in a family history tome. My older brother had written and published A Little Bit of [...]
In 2015, I titled this post "A Crafty, Callous and Curmudgeonly Crew", which was a boating metaphor for the members of cabinet at the time. I found their lack of [...]
Whenever I walk through Sydney Hyde Park, past the Archibald Fountain, along Art Gallery Road, and up to the steps of the Art Gallery of NSW, I remember our six-year-old [...]
A recently published book by two researchers into the role of Greek families in the cultural history of Australia, got me thinking back to my childhood in the Clarence Valley [...]
Magnetic Island Magnetic Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef. Just outside our unit is a marked underwater reef that one can follow, either with a snorkel or by [...]
From the Hall of Fame at the North Sydney Pool: “The North Sydney Pool was, in its heyday, one of the most advanced olympic facilities in the world”. “It was [...]
WHERE IS VACY? Vacy is in the Dungog Shire, not far from Paterson in the Lower Hunter Valley. It’s a 197 km drive north and then north-west from Sydney. Or [...]
Moree, with a population of about 8,000, is situated in the north-west of NSW on the Mehi River and at the junction of the Gwydir and Newell Highways. It is [...]
