DIARY UPDATE: Week 40, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 2018 MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 The Tweed Daily News is 130 years old. I started my journalistic career at the paper on […]
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SACRE ‘BLUE’ IN BORDEAUX
Travel Twice my waiter asked if I really wanted my steak blue. It was Bordeaux, October 2011, and the reputation of Australians/Kiwis/Englanders had preceded me. Most, it seemed, liked their […]
LET’S GO TO PUB, LUV
Travel “What could be more romantic?”, I said to my wife, Marie, as she contemplated a wedding anniversary lunch with me; a fellow rugby league writer; a rugby league fan/war […]
IS IT RICKETY GATE OR RICKETY KATE?
Travel My wife’s maiden name is Donnelly, so it seemed only right that we should visit the Donnelly River region during our motoring trip around South West Australia in January, […]
DON’T SKIP THIS ISLAND
DON’T SKIP THIS ISLAND Kangaroo Island – surely one or two nights would be enough. How wrong my wife, Marie and I were, when in November, 2005, we booked in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 33, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 33 2018 MONDAY, AUGUST 13 It is day five of our UK/Ireland trip and I am hanging out for a coffee, in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 32, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 32 2018 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8 My wife, Marie and I depart for a UK/Ireland adventure. Cathay check-in staff are very helpful. An […]
THE TRACKS OF MY YEARS
TRAVEL The Milford Track walk was magnificent, but there is an Australian walking destination, which I prefer. At the risk of receiving derisive messages from my Kiwi friends, let me […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 31 2018 MONDAY, JULY 30 On Radio TAB, Peter Psaltis says Allan ‘Alfie’ Langer should be added to the exclusive Immortals club. […]
DANISH LADS ON SONG
What could go wrong? The singing from the cellar bar in down town Copenhagen, Denmark, sounded like a bunch of footy fans enjoying a few beers before a match. So […]
