A ‘choose you own adventure’ post today. Very interactive – click on the click-able bits of the post as you wish. Here is a gift for you for International Women’s Day (the poem at the start is only 3 or 4 minutes). If you are a bloke reading this – pass this on to a…
Details“Mind if I play with you guys?” “No worries,” I say, shaking hands with the man in the sunglasses, “My name’s Bill and this is my son Jack.” “I’m Andrew.” We are on the first tee of a brilliant little nine-hole course nestled into the foreshore of Apollo Bay, our annual summer holiday spot. One…
DetailsA ‘mail-out’ was conducted in a beautiful house in a leafy green Melbourne suburb on Tuesday night last week. There you go. This is an international scoop for the Time & Space Blog. Now admittedly, it has been a big news week. If you are reading this sometime after publication – here’s what else has…
Details“So… do you want me to come in with you?” I ask. The young bloke (aka YB), our #2 child, and #1 son, and I sit this morning in the car park of his new senior high school. He is starting in Year 10 today. There is a typical pause. It could be his own…
DetailsTwo personal highlights from 2011. They even contradict each other depending on the world perspective we take but there you go… this is the world we live in, going into 2012. I hope it is a good one for you and thanks for reading the blog this year. As always, feel free to comment, email…
DetailsThe major block of colour is maroon. Boys in school blazers, in their hundreds, are crossing the street, streaming from trams and buses towards the requiem mass for Father John Carnie. Appreciate that the boys have been given the day off and the choice, by their school, to attend this funeral. Father John had been…
DetailsThe two of us loaded our overnight gear into the boot at the front of the old ‘Volksy’. Just the two of us. That meant that the little red headed kid got the prime front seat propped up right next to dad. In 1973, dad took me on a journey up the old Hume Highway…
DetailsIf you don’t come from Brisbane, how often do you look up the BOM website to get a weather forecast? For this blogger it is at least once a year and a comforting traditional prediction is there for today… showers and thundery rain. Huey has not disappointed. Mother Nature’s roulette wheel is spun around this…
DetailsIt is now ten years and two months since September 11 2001. As a global community we felt helpless for a while. In the last post, I described a paralysis of fear that struck me. A distinct moment snapped me out of that feeling and I promised more details… I wasn’t directly affected by the…
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