Category: People

When my dad died, a little over a year ago, I came by some paperwork that allowed me to follow up on some of my heritage. So, accompanied by my grandson, Nicky, I found the grave of my Grandfather, Colin McArthur, a returned WW1 veteran.
Colin McArthur was the grandfather whom I never knew, never met. [...]

Well, for years our family has been spread around Australia from the east to the west coast, four and a half thousand kilometres separating our most distant family members. But this Christmas we’re all together and the twins stayed the night of Christmas eve with us making for a great Christmas morning.
So here are a [...]

Well, it’s ages since I last did a portrait session but since a few photographer friends were getting together for a barbie, show and tell and model shoot, I went along with it.
After photographing in the studio for a while, we went outside where it was rather overcast, most of the time, cold and windy.
A [...]

Well, we’ll find out on Friday if the judge at the Bega show thinks Lesley’s raspberry jam is a winner. I reckon, right now, it’s a winner!

We hadn’t long set up camp at River Bend Caravan Park, about twenty kilometres out of Echuca, when I could see what a love filled place it is and I couldn’t help but admire Alan who so openly declared his love for Lynne.
As I mused over the circumstances of the carving, obviously the work of [...]

Auntie Phyllis was my dad’s sister, two and a half years his senior. She had a good innings, making 90 not long before her death the other day.
I have some idea of Auntie Phyllis’ early life from stories that my dad has told and have picked up bits and pieces along the way and in [...]