WHOLLY BOVINE! WHAT A LOAD OF TAURUS MANURE!
The recent inane attempts to re-write well-known books by highly-regarded storytellers are further proof many inhabitants of this world have lost the...
View ArticleTONGUE-TIED…AND TONGUE-TIRED!
A couple of weeks ago a Gympie friend and I chatted on the phone; not an unusual event. Having grown up across the street from each other, we’ve been friends...
View ArticleWHERE WERE YOU WHEN………………?
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Friends..."Where or When" When my now late brother Graham and I were kids our Nana and Mum gained a great...
View ArticleAS TIME GOES BY….
As Time Goes By...Frank Sinatra.... ANZAC Day Dawn Service 25th April, Elephant Rock, CurrumbinTime certainly is flying by at a rapid rate of...
View ArticleFACETS OF LOVE ….
Where to begin…sitting at my keyboard, I guess this is as good a place as any to start. Below I’ve expressed some personal thoughts in three poems I penned… A...
View ArticleON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE…FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE…
For a couple or so years I called him “Gar” because I couldn’t pronounce his name. I can’t remember the exact date or day, but I do remember the light-bulb moment I said his name correctly for the...
View ArticleIF THE SPIRIT IS WILLING…
St. Bernard's Hotel St. Bernards at St. Bernard's...View from the rear dining area of St. Bernard's Hotel, looking over towards the Gold...
View ArticleMEMORIES….LOVING MEMORIES….
Remy....4th November, 2002.....27th November, 2022Shama....4th November, 2002.....24th June, 2023Both were loved so very, very much...both are missed so very, very much..... WebYOUR DOMAIN NAME
View ArticleA MĚNAGE Á TROIS…NOT AT ALL BOURGEOIS
Photo taken in Mackay at the time of my now late brother's wedding....1967 (From left, me, my friend, my brother's soon-to-be father-in-law, my mother and my grandmother...and the famous Honda Sports...
View ArticleTHE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
For my fourth birthday I was presented with an ice cream cake packed in dry ice aka frozen carbon dioxide to keep it frozen. I wasn’t fond of ice cream when I was a kid. I guess that made me a bit...
View ArticleFOR AULD LANG SYNE
…Calm down! Don’t get your knickers in a knot! Time is flying by at a rapid rate of knots, but it’s not yet New Year’s Eve. However, that being so doesn’t make the words of “Auld Lang Syne” less...
View ArticleLET’S SPICE THINGS UP A BIT!
A disclaimer: Not wishing to incriminate myself; at the risk of being sued, or worse…some details of the following tale have been...
View ArticleFIFTY SHADES OF RED…..
Upon looking in the mirror one Monday morning in 1971 after I’d spent the weekend at Tangalooma Resort on Moreton Island I saw red. Having spent far too long under the hot, summer south-east...
View ArticleANIMAL KINGDOM
Eungella-Pioneer Valley, West of MackayMr. B and Lady...Two of the wallaby residents of Hinchinbrook Island Resort Kangaroos on the beach at Cape...
View ArticleBOOK HAVEN HEAVEN….
A scene from the 1954 movie..."Elephant Walk" With the rapidly passing years I’m not as agile as I...
View ArticleWHERE…WHEN...THEN…THERE..AND…NOW…
Orchid Beach, Hinchinbrook IslandA couple of pencil drawings by me...and a couple of acrylic paintingsOmar Sharif I’ve been ploughing through papers, files, old photos etc. My sudden burst of...
View ArticleCHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
Guinea Fowl Freshwater Creek, Hinchinbrook Island Dugongs JaffasMany years ago when I was a child,...
View ArticleTHE SPIES WHO LOVE ME…
Kookaburra...graphite drawing I did a few years agoMagpiesButcher BirdNoisy Miner.Pied CurrawongConstantly I’m under surveillance by a group of tuxedo-clad spies, and by others of various sizes,...
View ArticleHERE I GO AGAIN….REPEATING MYSELF!
This time of the year, every year, I’m in awe at the beauty that surrounds. I offer no apology for, once again, sounding like a broken record by describing the...
View ArticleTHE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
As I have done for the past number of Christmases I'll be flying under the radar once again during the Holiday Season. Gone are the days when I catered for the 'masses', whether privately or in...
View ArticleLOST IN A WORLD OF MAYHEM
And, this is what I’m trying to do at present…look at life from both sides. It’s been a very difficult time, but, sadly for many others, it’s a much more difficult for them. Too many suffered...
View ArticleWHERE DO I BEGIN?
My apologies to you all…to my blogging mates for me being missing in non-action of late. I’ve not been spending much time on my computer. To be honest, I’ve not been feeling 100%, but I’ll start...
View ArticleUNIVERSE SWALLOWED ME
Author Trent Dalton Have we finally said, “Bye, bye, to Tay-Tay?” here in the Land of Oz? Last year we had the Matildas shoved down our throats every which, and...
View ArticleTHERE MUST BE SOME HERE SOMEWHERE!
I'll get around to finish this drawing one day!Clint LindtYoo-hoo! Hey there! Over here! I’m over here behind the bushes; to the left. My left, silly; not your right…that’s right! I’m digging...
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