Family stories

Backstage with the Oils

It was 1998 and I'd just came back from the EuroTrip with the lads, post-university. I'd really missed the fair shores of Australia, especially after a long and dreary-weathered European winter....

Nate Simmons
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Dialect Kills People

Quite some years back I had round my Sunday lunch table, a young lady just out from South Africa an older man with a very pronounced local accent with other guests....

Mary Webb
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Daughter.

She would skip and dance throughout the land. She would shout, she would feel waves of joy through the wind. ...

James Rankin
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Another Reason to Celebrate Christmas

As a Christian I know that 25th December, is ‘Christmas Day’, a day of celebrating the birth of Christ, but for me it is also a day to reflect on wha...

Lorraine Penn
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What legacy will you leave behind

Recently I found myself going over old photos of the family, mainly to get one that related to my first daughter when she was 18 months. Doing this made me realise how the years have flown by....

Lorraine Penn
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Father's Day

After relocating from the big smoke of Sydney to the Mid North Coast, Coffs Harbour almost 5 years ago....

Lorraine Penn
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