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Let’s go for a walk

It was a Sunday afternoon, and the occasion was lunch with all the family at The Gap. We had finished lunch and David said,...

Mum said, “Pip,I have to tell you something”. It all started on a warm Sunday afternoon. The BeLerse boys(that what I always called the...

Place bowl on top of head, cut any hair below bowl. I remember having to sit and wait my turn (in the first house...

I can fondly remember trips with Dad and Sam when I was about 15-16 years old, often sitting three abreast, in the old family...

I know this story book is supposed to be about happy times but if I was asked to nominate the “worst day in my...

I remember one afternoon at Stradbroke when Pip decided that it was time to take his new “tinny” out for a spot of fishing....

I can fondly remember Auntie Phyllis, my father’s auntie (Nana’s sister). I always thought of her as a kindly old lady who loved me...

(Story by Helen Baskerville at the occasion of the Golden Anniversary of the marriage of Anne & Henry Baskerville on the 8 February, 1996)...

Fishing to David & Pip was always a serious endeavor, something that Tom and I could never quite grasp. We never could quite give...

The creek at the Gap held a certain fascination for us. We had arrived back in Brisbane as teenagers, and for the first six...