Michael Gorey

The first day of our Mandurah holiday was all we expected: balmy weather, great beaches and lots of fun.
Juliet and I plan to dine out plenty of times, and generally for lunch, so we don’t leave the kids alone at night. Today was a family outing though.
The Sunday traffic was crazy and it took nearly [...]

A day after his first soccer game Dude played his first hockey match. It’s an under 13 competition and at age 10 he’s one of the smallest boys. Soccer is his school year group.
Dude did pretty well at hockey and won his share of the ball.

I discovered today that one of my relatives was the bareknuckle boxing champion of Kalgoorlie!
I was pretty sure that we weren’t the first Goreys to live in Kalgoorlie. Shortly after I arrived here I met the secretary of the Goldfields Family History Society to discuss setting up a regular historical feature, and I asked her [...]

Congratulations to South Africa on fighting to survive the First Test against Australia in Perth.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Australia’s decision not to declare earlier in the second innings helped South Africa to save the match.
I deliberately say it was "Australia’s decision" because fast bowler Glen McGrath confirmed as much when he told [...]

I went cycling up the Buckland Valley today. I don’t ride much in winter, but conditions were balmy today, more like September than July.
Going past the Lumsden’s dairy farm I noticed the newborn calves and pondered their existence. Never to know their dads, these little one have already been weaned from their mums.
Half of them [...]