Football, cricket, tennis and golf. They dominated the early years.

Some memories of Test matches in the 50s 60s and 70s

When I was in grade three Dad bought another farm about six miles north of Girraween. So in the autumn of that year I left Bordertown primary and started going to Carew school which was about a mile and a half from home.

There was a big old mulberry tree near the fence behind the rectory; many hours were spent up there…

A job I had after school was to buy a half loaf from the bakery down Farquhar St across Woolshed St.

Since we lived so far out of town, and there was no school bus, I started school in 1952 at Bordertown, staying with Grandma and Grandpa Monday to Friday.

I started steering the tractor and Land Rover pretty young. Dad used to feed oats to the sheep in summer/autumn from the four-wheeled trailer, and I was the driver…

This was a year when there was fair bit going on, not all of it good.