Our new trains are coming. This could mean that generations of problems are over. 🍾🍾🍾🍾 HISTORIC COMMUTER COMPLAINTS The following was taken from The Daily Telegraph in May 1928; The trains of New South Wales are notoriously dirty and slow, and a great deal of the inefficiency
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Perhaps I am becoming more critical as I age, but I find so many examples of hotel room horrors these days. Sometimes there is an early sign of trouble when the designers have been just that little bit too tricksy and trendy. The pics below were taken
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One day Editor Des and I were walking the famous Thames Path near London (as one does) when we stumbled upon the tiniest gnome in the universe. He was standing on a pile of golden sovereigns at Putney. I’m afraid Editor Des quickly scoffed the coins,
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The sculptor Tom Bass (1916-2010) was born in Lithgow, while his father was working at the Small Arms Factory. Richard Neville (1941-2016) spent much of his later life in the Blue Mountains village of Blackheath. Both men
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A LIGHT-HEARTED ‘JOURNEY’ AROUND SYDNEY SUBURBS Currently Sydney is comprised of 658 suburbs. That’s because the city became so spread out when most of us lived on quarter acre blocks. Let’s face it, you could fit the residents of leafy Killara into one inner city high-rise. The
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TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING OK, all packed for our trip across the Nullarbor on the Indian Pacific, It’s a VERY long train. Had to catch the train to Sydney first. For heavens sake…..why couldn’t it pick us up on the way???? Pretty poor service considering my status.
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SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR LATEST UPDATE! My guardian Pauline Conolly grew a special rose called Hot Chocolate. ‘Come and smell it Des’ she said. So I did, just to make her happy. I took a deep breath of the perfume and then…wham!! A *#@!*!*# bee stung me
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UPDATE – This story about a Katoomba poet created enormous interest. Most people were highly amused about poor Mr Meyer’s rejection letter, although was some sympathy. Of course if Meyers had seen the following cartoon he may have been spared the wrath of Angus & Robertson.
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According to urban mythology, Sydney’s Sacred Ibis are actually a scary mutation of the seagull. The story goes that over succeeding generations, one strain of gull became larger, more aggressive, and far more athletic, until…..voila!; Instead of lolling about at the Sydney Cricket Ground as seagulls do,
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AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL RULES I grew up in the small Tasmanian town of Ulverstone, where Australian Rules Football was the sport we were passionate about. Ulverstone’s colours have always been black and red, hence their name, The Robins. In the 1960’s football was untainted by the corporate sector and
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