Death Takes No Holidays
Peter just sat quietly, drinking coffee, ready to say or do anything that needed to be done. It was just a few hours since my mother had died, and Peter had dropped everything and called around as soon as he…
Allan Cockerill
A business consultant and copywriter based in Bathurst NSW Australia specializing in search engine friendly web content and social media.
Founder and CEO of This Writer For Hire/Allan Cockerill Services, Allan helps businesses to get their conversation right in the market place!
Allan also ghosts writes for select professional clients, and is able to "translate" industry jargon into copy that is easy to read and comprehend.
Current clients include a large international legal firm, a well known anthropologist and a number of hospitality businesses.
Santa Never Made It Into Darwin For Christmas
Santa never made it into Darwin for Christmas 1974! The capital city of Australia’s Northern Territory, Darwin today has a population of about 105,000 people, and is the smallest of Australia’s capital cities. Darwin is a tropical city, and is…
It’s Still A Wonderful Life
It’s a Wonderful Life – a film produced and directed by Frank Capra in 1946. The film is based on “The Greatest Gift” written by Philip Van Doren Stern. Starring James Stewart as George Bailey and Donna Reed as his…
The Winter Solstice December 22
The Winter solstice occurs each year on 22 December, and is caused by the tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation. December 22 is the shortest day of the year for people in the northern hemisphere, and the longest for…