My website has been up for just a week and I am still at the stage of checking frequently to see who has been visiting and -even more importantly- looking to see if anyone has respond with a comment. When the stories were in hard copy, it was relatively easy to control  for reactions: I…

It’s Australia Day: for readers outside Australia that means it‘s 26 January. Our national holiday commemorates the landing at Sydney Cove of the First Fleet from Britain in 1788. Indigenous Australians have little to rejoice in this, perhaps, but the day has certainly come to be a celebration of Australian life and culture. It happens…

Well, it’s refreshing that at age sixty-four I still have unmet ambitions and a bucket list that stretches over the page. But my website has been an unrealised ambition for years – and here it is up and running. You are most welcome to my space. My family and the friends who have shared my…