“Did I see you having lunch today at The Tin Shed at Lithgow?”, came the surpising instant message via Facebook. It’s been a while since my former colleague and I have seen each other, and so when I walked past, she said she wasn’t sure if it was me or…
“Jag tyckte inte om boken” (I didn’t like the book), I wrote to my Swedish teacher today, when she asked for feedback on the book we have been studying, “The Long Ships” an adventure novel by the Swedish writer Frans G. Bengtsson. “There were many difficult names and characters”, I…
“You can sit wherever you like, so long as you don’t sit in the front row, and so long as there are two empty seats either side of you”, I was told in response to my question about where I could sit tonight. “Perfect”, I said, “That’s exactly how I…
It’s over twenty years since I last visited Bourke in Western NSW. To be precise, it was March 3, 2000, and my visit there co-incided with a visit by Queen Elizabeth II. I was working for ABC Radio presenting the NSW Regional Drive Show, and the visit by the Queen…