River Girl I lived at a place called Waterview, a lush, fertile valley, with a river swollen like a pregnant woman coursing through it. Despite the name ‘Waterview’, the Clarence [...]
Lambs in Spring Donny Me Billy The humid scorching heat of the sub-tropical climate engulfed us; the sun’s rays tore at our skin with ruthless intensity and sent [...]
December 13th November, 2008 a scorpio You can't know the sheer joy and wonder of grandparenting, until it happens to you. It was around 4am when Grandad Mark’s [...]
After some confusion, I started at the Angel in search of a boy, my long-lost Ern, my namesake, darling. A perfect starting point for my research. I felt sure your [...]
LIFE IN A QUAINT VILLAGE: PATERSON A Watershed Year: 2014 My husband Mark Onslow and I went to bed one night with three grandchildren, and woke up the next [...]
I love my brother Donny to bits. He’s the funny one in our family. He sings and yodels “There’s a Track Leading Back” and plays the guitar like his heroes, [...]
Cover of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life Lately I've been reading reading reading ... especially memoirs, as I come closer to sending one of mine off to [...]
Our house was a simple tin roofed ‘shack’, as Mum called it, sitting on two acres of land divided into three paddocks. There was an outdoor wash-house and a lavatory [...]
A Return in 2011 Armidale, a regional University town, is situated in the northern tableland area of New England, halfway between Sydney and Brisbane with a population of 25,000. In [...]
Armidale Teachers' College in the New England Tablelands, was an impressive building where we went for courses each day during the week. We trudged up the hill with a group [...]
