Mick’s Run
” I really hope I don’t let them down” was Mick’s concerned comment as we drove to the GPS Track & Field Championship being...
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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....
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David’s Blue Stool
David was the obvious engineer and builder in our family. This fact was recognized in him at a very young age by my parents....
We was there we really were!
For neigh on 15 years Tom, Pip and I morosely watched as our birth state’s rugby league football team lost to a team of...
The Copper and the Wringer
Now I know what you guys are thinking – here is a story about a policeman with a bell. Wrong! This is in fact...
Gonga’s TV
Television may well have come to Australia in the late 50s, but it never got to our home until many decades later. To our...
Food for Thought
If it was a hungry man who, whilst working the waste conveyor of an ancient abattoir, decided to pocket the passing ox tail for...
The Benny Freeman Show
Tradition and loyalty are quite wonderful attributes when applied to most situations in life. Still, I would like to share with you some real...
Life’s Staples milk and bread
Once upon a time, a long time ago, in our far away home at Wooloowin, milk was actually delivered to the back door of...
A Camel and Rock for a bed
Now there is a recognized spirit of adventure – which I can identify with, but there is also an instinctive longing for survival. I...
What’s in a Name?
One noticeable transition that occurs in the natural evolution from primary to secondary school, is the way in which teachers are recognized by the...