“We need to see a kangaroo while we’re in Australia,” I told my mum when we arrived at her place on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. “Miss M is Australian and.
13 years ago
“Tonight we are going to sleep on the plane,” I reminded Miss M this morning. “No,” she said forcefully. “I sleep. You sit. And then we see Nanna.” And.
13 years ago
My dad would have turned 65 today. He didn’t mind having a birthday just before Christmas. Even as a boy he didn’t mind people telling him they’d just get.
14 years ago
A frantic flight home, a funeral, floods in Bangkok and a missed festival – a pretty crap couple of weeks for us. If “pretty crap” can sum up the.
15 years ago
“It’s your Dad,” Mum says. “He’s dead.” I knew from the heavy tone of Mum’s voice when she answered the phone that something serious had happened. But I thought.
15 years ago
McLarenvale had me at the tourist information centre carpark. The sight of Autumn leaves and the smell of the rosemary bushes being raked into order make me fall in.
15 years ago
Long thin paper-wrapped parcels are tucked under besuited arms, as lawyerly conversations flows unchecked – adjournments, clients, weekend golf. Rough-looking round-bellied unionists hand out helium-filled balloons and brochures explaining the upcoming May Day public holiday.
15 years ago
Maleny is an old-time country town that has been transformed into a hub of herbal-hippy artsy-craftyness, its main street full of organic outlets, upmarket bakeries, fancy cafes and home-made.
15 years ago