FRIDAY 5.00pm Take Michael to soccer training 6.00pm Pickup Michael from soccer 7.00pm Take Michael to sleepover
Family tickets
Travelling with four children is expensive. We’re grateful Kevin paid for our airfares, hire car and accommodation, but it still costs a substantial amount of money to eat and visit local attractions. I find it annoying that wherever you can get a family discount, the “family” is defined as two adults and two children. It’s [...]
Random musings
It was a quiet weekend, not much happening. I’ll be a taxi driver again soon enough once the hockey and soccer seasons get under way. In no particular order, these are some random musings and personal news items: I’m reading Stewart Cockburn’s biography of Sir Thomas Playford. The subtitle is “Benevolent despot” which gives you [...]
Memory fragments
Do you ever have random flashbacks? I don’t mean of harrowing events. It would be understandable to recall a war, physical assault or natural disaster. Sometimes I remember things randomly from the past. Little things, like finding a dead cow on the farm at Pambula. Or riding a bike in the rain. Some of these [...]
Noreen reflects on Black Friday
I wrote recently about the 70th anniversary of “Black Friday” coming up on January 13. The Age newspaper in Melbourne has a story on the fires today, including an interview with my aunt Noreen Warren. Noreen is the only one of my grandparents’ 12 children still alive. It’s great that she is commemorating the anniversary. [...]
