Author: philip.baskerville@gmail.com

Now one of the problems with those annual “Cracker Nights” was that those damned colourful sky-rockets were just too expensive for our weekly allowance...

Gary Lay was a lovable character with a good honest heart and a jovial carefree disposition. As fate would have it, all these blessings...

  The Gap house held such wonderful memories for us kids. It was home to so much of our growing up experiences. Sadly, the...

Luckily, I only shared 2 of my senior subjects with Shellshear. German, which we spent together mostly in the library with Wilber and also...

Now there were several ways to spend a regular school teaching period in the library at Grammar. One way was to be instructed to...

  Shellshear was my best mate in my last year at Brisbane Grammar School. He was repeating the senior year, having done rather poorly...

Bathtime at Kaboora on Stradbroke Island in the 60s, was a time of great dilemma and trauma. See – there were two choices. There...

Mum is the only person I know who can be cooking a meal for 8 and with the unexpected arrival of another family still...

Things finally began to settle down as the vigilante posse was herded back into their sleeping quarters by the now rather anxious camp leaders....

David’s pack of mates were on to it from day one. They knew that the quickest way to meet the 1,000 young people attending...