What Is Your 2:57 Moment?
This is the question that was posed by Will Newman in an email that I received recently. It wasn’t until I clicked on the link in the email and checked out the Jeb Corliss video on YouTube that I knew…
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And Then, the Fence Blew Down!
So there we were, my wife, the lady next door and I, all standing looking at our former fence! We’d been putting off replacing the thing for years, fixing palings and propping it up as it needed, but the storm…
Allan’s Newest Experiment!
[masterylabs_dropbox_audio file=”https://allancockerill.com/v/newvoice.mp3″ image=”https://allancockerill.com/images/headly.png” link=”” width=”650″ height=”502″ controls=”yes” autoplay=”no” volume=”100″ loop=”no”] What’s a man to do..? With a great head for radio, and a voice well suited to silent movies, I’ve been reluctant to appear in videos, preferring to use slide…
Remembering The Fallen Doesn’t Glorify War
I wrote about Anzac Day 2016 here the other day. ANZAC Day 2016 has come and gone, and with it, the usual debate about whether days such as this glorify war, and the ugliness that goes with it. [sm_smlts_cols] [sm_smlts_col…
Learning From History
One of the things that I have learned from history is, that we never seem to learn from history. Yesterday I wrote about the demise of Hill End in the central west of NSW, Australia. This little town could be…
What If What Happened To Hill End Happened In Your Town?
What Exactly Happened To Hill End? Hill End is a mining town just north of the city of Bathurst in NSW, Australia. Founded during the 1850s’ gold rush, it reached it’s peak in the 1870s, with about 8,000 residents. At…