From the Gold Coast to Brisbane I was more than fêted during this past week. nnie picked me up from the airport at Coolangatta and drove straight to meet the trawler man coming back to port after a night at sea. We buy four of his largest freshly caught spanner crabs straight from the ocean …
Not sure if Bill remembers that his old uncle has been keeping tabs on the ‘life of Jude’ in pictures since he was born in 2010. The posts languish away on a joint blogger account and only get added to when I take the effort. I for one find it interesting to look back, and …
t is eight years since my first visit to our Secondary School NOSSEF at the Jesuit Mission in Railaco, and twelve years since St Canice’s built the first concrete-block classroom. At that time, shy students would often walk up to two hours every day to get to school. Music may have been in the children’s …
imorese Traditions colour weekend festivities for the Opening of the New Parish Church at the Jesuit Railaco Mission. Bishop da Silva of Dili is spending the weekend up here in the mountains outside Dili to officiate at the ‘Opening and Blessing’ ceremony for the new church and to confirm seven-hundred candidates of all ages the …
n the final six months of my working life, I lived in London but commuted to Germany for four-day weeks and for only three weeks a month. That may have been the beginning of understanding the evolving art of travel. (Thanks to my late friend and boss Juergen for going along with the compromise on …