DIARY UPDATE: Week 38, 2015
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Meet our apartment proprietors this morning after their weekend London trip to see modern version of Hamlet at The Barbican – directed by Lindsay Turner. Head into […]
Category Archives: Diary of a retired Rugby League Journalist
DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2015
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Day starts so well, with best coffee yet and a free Telegraph. Then I discover my passport is missing! Of woe is me. Where the hell did I […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2015
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Depart for the UK today. Fly business class (Singapore Airlines) for first time as a couple. So exciting. Soccer, bloody soccer is all that the bloke in front […]
DIARY: Week 35, 2015
MONDAY, AUGUST 24 Enjoy a lovely two hour chat with former Test rugby league referee and Sheffield Shield cricket umpire, Don Lancashire and his wife, Carol at their Mount Warren […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 34, 2015
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 During my walk to the newsagent I see a little boy point to an ibis, and then ask his dad if it’s an emu? Sensational. MC Men […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 33, 2015
MONDAY, AUGUST 10 Brisbane Broncos’ Test centre, Justin Hodges announces he will retire at season’s end. I remember saying, the first time I saw Justin at Broncos’ training, that he […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 32, 2015
MONDAY, AUGUST 3 My lovely wife, Marie turns 65 today. We have lunch at Vintaged in the Hilton Hotel with our daughter, Melanie. Our waiters are in the veteran category […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2015
MONDAY, JULY 27. Meet a new neighbour – Vince Ahern, a police officer and cousin of former Queensland premier, Mike Ahern. Vince was a boarder at Nudgee College in Brisbane. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 30
TUESDAY, JULY 21 Men of League Committee meeting at Broncos as the footy team trains on the fields below. I bump into ‘The King’ Wally Lewis (Channel 9), as well as […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 On 2KY’s Big Breakfast Show, former New South Wales State of Origin centre, Matt King says the 52-6 loss to Queensland last week cut deep. “I am […]
