Fox is a member of the Queensland Parliament and a big-wig among Brisbane businessmen. He has considerable civic and personal pride in the switch to electricity, which he sees as a great leap forward. I didn’t say that horses are a great love of mine, and to have them dispossessed gives no pleasu...
My neighbours in Palmerston North could trace themselves in unbroken line to a Dutch paymaster who came to England after the crowning of William and Mary in 1689. Ted Gilley, who was custodian at the Foundation for the Blind, had the middle name Unpeas, which the eldest male of the Gilley family ...
Sheff drove, with Georgie beside him, and Belize sat in the back with Warwick. Despite the reason for the trip they attempted to treat it as an excursion, the road providing novelty for commentary, and also the familiar for reminiscence. Recent memory also. As they passed through Roxburgh, Sheff ...
The world might hinge a little at dawn and dusk, showing something of what was coming and something of what had gone before. Privacy is a rare and special blessing within institutions. At the centre there were off-duty times when David would go up the hill behind the groun...
‘A corker of a night,’ says the Caretaker. Wellington has been known to have such a night. No wind at all to set the stars swinging and the scent of the Caretaker’s pipe rises undisturbed and so more pungently than usual. Slaven has his face to the window grill as if at confession and watches the...