Scarlett’s Baptism Brings Family Joy
How strange that this morning I awake with a song in my head which is a popular wedding hymn. Its words “This is the day which the Lord Hath made’’ run through my mind and it strikes me that this day...
View ArticleOz film industry created our own heroes – Jack Thompson
In 40 years, the Australian film industry has grown up from infancy and “given us a voice on screen” by telling our own stories with Aussie actors portraying familiar characters says veteran actor...
View ArticleOscar survives another misadventure
Pretty puppy pooch, Oscar. has had another dramatic event which had him screaming for his life. My dear friend, Sheryl, dog-sits Oscar often because she has two doggies of her own – an old shi tsu...
View ArticleThe “old bugger” meets the new babies
It is hard to determine who is the more fragile – my father Frank, who turned 94 a few weeks ago, or his new great-grand-daughter, Scarlett Rose Williams, who has been placed carefully into his frail...
View ArticleWark’s Wonderful World of Words
Lyceum Club senior-vice-president, Marguerite Wark has won a special prize in the Writers’ Week competition and shares her delightful words with us. “Writers’ Week – my favourite week in the year –...
View ArticleKookaburra’s special song
Remember the childhood song “Kookaburra sits on the Old Gum Tree…Merry, Merry King of the Bush is He….’’. The words flooded back this week when a kookaburra descended upon the gums surrounding the new...
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