Digger Harman, an Antipodean McGonagall
In the annals of bad doggerel verse one name - William Topaz McGonagall - stands head and shoulders above all others. McGonagall's tortured meters and forced rhymes are so gob-smacking…
Robert Huddle's watercolour of the Royal Mail Steamer Scotia, one of the ships on which he worked.
The logbook of Captain Robert Huddle
A year or two ago I was privileged to receive a remarkable book from the library of a friend who had passed away. It is a hefty bound volume, containing…
A Cessna 210. Photo from Wikipedia.
The last flight of Mike Delta X-ray
THE only unsolved aviation mystery in Australia since World War 2, the crash of Cessna 210 Mike Delta X-ray on August 9, 1981, has attracted hordes of searchers and spawned…