Click here to view PHOTO ALBUM showing pics from a lovely pre-Christmas dinner hosted by my nephew Bill. fter ignoring me for the past year, retreating, screaming and hugging mummy’s legs for grim death at even the slightest approach from a once-doting grand uncle, I was ‘run-ragged’ by the ‘child’ calling out to me from …
t Canice’s opened 125 years ago next May with a Haydn Mass; with many dignitaries; with much aplomb. We are a poor church in comparison to those heady early days of the new colony. Hopefully, this past Sunday could well be a foretaste of what we might expect in May 2014 as part of …
limbing up Bell Bird Hill from Richmond on the Hawkesbury River with the windows down, the loud tinkling of the little bellbirds from the undergrowth is interrupted only by a huge crack through the air from a whip bird getting in on the act. As we arrive at Gerhard’s in Kurrajong Heights, the rains came, …
can’t think of anything better on a mild summer’s day than a trip to the beach and a spot of lunch at one of my favourite beachside restaurants, open to the sea breezes. I ask myself why we travel to exotic places when we have it all here? And it’s even more of a treat …