Our Little Artist
When I was a boy, I used to belong to the Sunbeamers - a club for kids that had its own page in the Sun News Pictorial newspaper in Melbourne on Saturdays. They had puzzles, colouring competitions and games that you could enter into each week. Prizes consisted of a series of different coloured certificates th more ...
Wilsons Promontory
Wilsons Promontory is named after Thomas Wilson, a merchant friend of Mathew Flinders, one of the early explorers of Australia's coastline. We spent a very pleasant few days in the National Park to do some bushwalking. The 'Prom' has had a series of disasters over recent years. In 2009, most of the park was b more ...
A Long Weekend In New Zealand
We enjoyed a very pleasant few days last weekend in the Little town of Martinborough in the Wairarapa Region and in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. We stayed in the little town of Martinborough (about 90 minutes drive from Wellington) for two nights at this very nice boutique hotel. Martinborough is t more ...
Art and a Good Life
On our second day at Healesville, we ventured over to the Tarrawarra Gallery which had an exhibition of paintings by Jeffrey Smart. He was an artist, originally from Adelaide who painted scenes of every day structures - factories, trains, buildings and roadways. Born in 1921 (and passing away in 2011) Jeffrey more ...
Remembrance Day – Canberra
When I came to Canberra for the weekend, I wanted to do three things - see the original Long Tan Cross, catch up with John Snare, my Platoon Commander in Vietnam and attend the Remembrance Day service at the Australian War Memorial. This morning, we attended the Rembrancd Day Service. One of the highlights wa more ...
