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Ten Mostly Mysterious Things to Me
By Helvi Oosterman We make lists of our ten favourite books or movies frequently. At dinner parties we have light hearted discussions about which ten items we would rescue from a burning house or what...
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My View of Vivid Sydney* – Fire Water by Voice
It had been billed as “a stunning re-creation of the fire that devastated the 19th-century convict ship the Three Bees sending its cannon balls blazing across the harbour”. Loudspeakers project music...
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Tom R.I.P (Amongst the bleached Bones of the inebriates at Orange. NSW)
(A story; some fiction, some not. Tom and the many mothers are still everywhere.) Tom, who was black and a returned soldier from the Korean War, used to live with his mother in Orange. He never did...
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Train Trip
The train trip. We recently discovered an even better train service to the city of Sydney. It’s the 8.17am leaving Bowral but only has the 3 stops to Central. Not that it is much faster. Arrival is...
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Bricks Over Broadway
Triple Fronted Double Brick with Picture Window Story by Warrigal Mirriyuula You could say that Australians are known for their love of bricks and mortar. Indeed if we had a national building the way...
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The Schoolies ‘Wipe out.’
The mystery of Schoolies and the “wipe-out”. I thought I knew that our liquor selling licensing laws and businesses were seen by many in the world as pretty antiquated. I suppose it might well explain...
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