New releases on plane journeys

by | Feb 12, 2018 | Film reviews

Don’t new releases on airplane journeys make you feel like you’re getting something for free?  I think so. It was a while ago now, but on my last long-haul flights, I made the most of the in-flight entertainment, even though I’d promised myself I...

Rubbishing Belair National Park

by | Jan 23, 2018 | Travel

There are several reasons I am grateful for growing up in South Australia.  Not least, because I grew up with Keep South Australia Beautiful or KESAB, Tidy Towns and 10c container deposits. Having lived in the eastern states metropolises of Sydney then Melbourne I was...

Click go the shears – February 2017

by | Jun 23, 2017 | Travel

Staying at Naracoorte for a three week holiday earlier this year, I took the opportunity to go and visit my cousin, Graham, who now runs the farm at which I spent many of my childhood holidays. Not much has changed, except the pine trees out front are taller. Out the...

Subterranean track-work blues and the Sunday Walk

by | Jun 23, 2017 | Travel

For the past several weekends, by some twist of fate, the quest for gainful employment has resulted in me traipsing the near East of Melbourne city in a combination of train, tram and foot. There has not been one day so far where some part of my journey has not been...