We are all totally devastated by this terrible news. From the moment Col first arrived at the Almanac, as a writer in 2012, and as an editor from soon after, Meryl has been there, someone to whom Col ...

Do you recall anything of the time we spent together? We were inseparable, you were my best friend. Those two years are just a blur, tiny droplets which fleetingly form in my thoughts unbidden.

Michael had booked a beer garden table at the ‘Maid and Magpie’ hotel. However, it was now formally known as ‘The Maid’. Walking around the beer garden there was no booking for them. There was also ...

Trent Robinson has joined an elite club of coaches who have won 4 or more premierships. He joins Bennett – 7; Gibson and Bellamy -5; Cleary, Sheens, and Provan with 4. Bennett has 6 with the Broncos, ...

And just when you thought the NRL’s Grand Final day was the end of the season, along comes the 2026 Rugby League World Cup! Starting next Thursday night and running through until its finals on ...

The story of the game has been well told – Roosters too strong, valiant Knights fall just short of a miracle win, Teddy leads from the rear, Ponga’s best not quite enough…Read the stories elsewhere. I ...

Yesterday was a visit to what’s left of the Twelve Apostles. The cliffs and Apostles themselves are still spectacular despite the erosion and the lookouts are awesome. This morning was the Port ...

Paul Allott was a Lancastrian who played 13 Tests, as well as 13 ODI’s, for England in the 1980’s. As a medium pace bowler, he scored an inaugural half century on his Test debut. His career was injury ...

The ‘Maynard’, my age, had been stomped on by a horse, several times, sometime earlier, bitten, fell off, bucked off and in high school was kicked in the leg by his horse, so hard, it numbed it, the ...

The AFL Grand Final is, of course, about football. But for those of us who write haiku about it, the game provides much more than a score, a winner and a loser. It gives us a concentrated moment in ...

This week marks the first anniversary of the death of former Moody Blues bassist John Lodge, aged 82. He was the penultimate member of the band still living at that time. Lead guitarist Justin Hayward ...