Growing up as a New South Welshman there are rules that are adhered to.  Under no circumstances do you drink XXXX as you would be considered a traitor and even threatened with being run out of the state. You will barrack for the NSW Blues affectionately known as cockroaches in State of Origin footy and you will never ever marry anyone from south of the border. I married a ‘Mexican.’ Lucky for me I had earned enough bagging Qld points to stay in NSW.

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My husband’s fiftieth birthday came as a great shock to all those who know him.  We were of the opinion that he shouldn’t have seen forty let alone fifty in fact some of us have even put money on him not making thirty but somehow he has managed to defy death. We believe, and with good reason, that he would have removed himself from the gene pool by now. We also believe that he should have not only been nominated but that there was a fair chance that he would have taken out first prize in th…

Australians’ let us all rejoice for they are going back to school…

As fast as you run your flag up the pole, eat your ‘cooked on the outside still raw on the inside’ snag  and the flyblown potato salad that on any other day would have the health department closing you down, argue over who is Australia’s greatest cricketer that has ever donned the baggy green, sing a stirring rendition of the first verse badly because not many of us know the second verse but we all know what girt me…

With the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaching and knowing that it had fallen on the day my daughter was born I had added Germany to my itinerary for my European vacation  in the hopes of getting a piece of the wall for her 21^st next year.

I didn’t know much about Germany except they liked beer, they invented Adidas shoes and aspirin and they lost both world wars both of which they had started.

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