Sam Baskerville

Victor was the name of the savage blue cattle dog that safeguarded his master’s property beside us at Wooloowin. We did not learn his...

Now someone has to tell this story and I am not so sure that my big sisters ever will. So I have taken it...

David’s first car was a VW. You know that now very fashionable 1968 beetle that everyone thinks is so cool. Well, he called his...

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...