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 heard the news. We’d met a few years before when he walked into the office…
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 similar in climate to Singapore and Jakarta (Indonesia). The area has distinct wet and dry…
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 wife Mary, the story is set in the fictional town of Bedford Falls shortly after…
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 those in the south. The winter solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the…
