Antipodes

I’m old-fashioned… which isn’t surprising in the case of a fellow born in 1940. I belong to a generation of old-timers who were never tempte...

Over time, I've got around to considering that a passionate birdwatcher cannot possibly be an entirely bad person. So, the appointment o...

Aussie oldtimers like me persist in believing that the expression "in like Flynn" evokes the great Tasmanian movie seducer Errol ...

I'm thinking of a weird winter that started 48 years ago, in December 1962, in London. I was 22 years old, and a confirmed computer prog...

Decades ago, before it became fashionable to joke about the paucity of effective contacts between Australian travelers and our diplomatic se...