Christmas 2004
You know on reflection, Christmas as a kid at our family home was as good as life gets! Not so much for the quality...
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March 11, 2018
Tom Thumb
Now those of you that know of the story will understand it when I say, “Tom is the only bloke that I know that...
March 11, 2018
Buried Alive
I have already told you the one about going down the Stormwater Drain at Greenslopes. Well this is Mark 2 of that same story....
March 11, 2018
St.Johns Wood Redemption
Every weekend our family would take the monotonous and repetitive forty-minute ride home to The Gap from the Sunday night church service at Coopers....
Sam Baskerville
Home-maid
The fundamentals of home economics ensured that homemade cooking was as much a necessity in our family home as it was a creative art....
Home “Alone” Beach Point Lookout
Us Baskervilles always knew it as 2nd Cylinder. See, in the 60s no one had bothered to give this beach its own name yet...
Punch with Punch
Bancroft was much more in touch with the run of the world than my religious upbringing ever allowed me to be. This fact was...
The Three Legged Swing
“I’m off to the Arnolds” and with that statement, one of the Baskerville brothers would disappear out the front door of our Gap home...
Mother Knows Best
“If I told you once I’ve told you a thousand times!” – I reckon I must have heard that one-liner from my English mother,...
“RMD”
Folks I have a confession to make. Well – I have it! I have “RMD.” That’s right guys, “Rhythmic Movement Disorder”. Its OK don’t...
Wo – Wool – Wooloowin
Wooloowin was the name of the suburb I grew up in Brisbane in the 50s. Now that’s not to be mistaken for Woolloomooloo, Woolloongabba...
The Gap Football
The Baskervilles were one of the first families to build on the newly developed estate at The Gap Brisbane, and so us kids pretty...
From Albert Hall to Herbert Hoover
After just 6 month, the family moved from the high-set house at Albert Street Rockhampton, to the new low-set address at Herbert Street. I...