On this beautiful, soft, autumn day, I am thankful for the recent rain we have had - just one day of it, and not a lot, but the dust storms are over and new grass peeping through. As you know, music is one of my greatest loves, and for the last couple of days, I have been discovering some new. I ... READ the POST

I'm on quite a different tack this time. I have a bee in my bonnet, around politics. Back in the fifties and sixties, in my time of growing up and being molded, one rule around social graces was that there were three things never to be discussed socially. They were religion, politics and sex. And ... READ the POST

Hello dear readers, Since my last post, we have spent a glorious week in a shack on Mundoo Channel, Hindmarsh Island. I have written of this shack elsewhere, but let me tell you it is the sweetest little place. A stone's throw from the water's edge, it has its own small jetty, where our secured ... READ the POST

I am about to continue my work of fiction - begun here three blogs ago, on 31/10/24, and titled 'Rusty Long, with most of his life behind him..' And so it goes .... In the way of ageing men, Rusty often ruminated on his life now. Why had he left home at fourteen to see the world, instead of ... READ the POST

I've been thinking about the fabric of people in places. There will probably come a time when I leave this property - one way or another. I am thinking of other local historic places I have visited - Anlaby Station, Bungaree and the like. How fortunate we are to have had their founding families ... READ the POST

In the after-glow of Christmas, we were sitting in our arm-chairs, pre-dinner reds in our hands, listening to Chris Rea and talking our heads off, as we still do. With a lifetime of stories to tell, we wonder if we'll ever run out and be still of them. Anyway, this was the scene. There was a ... READ the POST