Almanac Rugby: Lions maul Bulls; farm productivity collapses on the Liverpool Plains

September 15, 2025 by 2 Comments

The Quirindi Lions are premiers, winning a high-scoring affair rather convincingly. Paul Nankivell was there with the travelling Quirindi throng as they broke their thirty year drought.

Almanac Cricket Memoir: Les Favell’s Creams – remembering the Fourth Test of the 1960-61 West Indies Tour of Australia

February 3, 2025 by 14 Comments

Nank remembers the summer when cricket got hold of him: the celebrated West Indies Tour of Australia in 1960-61. He was at the Adelaide Test with his Dad Max and mates. [Cracking memoir – Ed]

Almanac Yachting: The `87 Sydney to Hobart

December 22, 2023 by 11 Comments

Paul Nankivell was an international economist and Sydney knockabout when he found himself among the seafarers of the RANSA and crewing the Hornet to Hobart in 1987. [Nank at his story-telling best – JTH]

Almanac Memoir: The Vientiane Rugby Club

June 24, 2020 by 9 Comments

Paul Nankivell recalls Vientiane in all its 1980s expat glory in this amusing memoir ostensibly about rugby. [Mangoplah Cookardinia gets a mention – Ed]

Almanac (Cricket) Life: Jack Mundey and the Right Line

May 29, 2020 by 23 Comments

Paul Nankivell first met Jack Mundey in 1971, and then bumped into him from time to time, including one pre-Test meeting at the Olympic Hotel near the SCG when Keith Miller may have been involved. [Great to have you on the site Nank – JTH]

Giddy-Up Gill

May 16, 2014 by 9 Comments

They told me this bloke (Nank) had a turn of phrase on him. And they were right. Here Paul Nankivell casts his eye on what we can expect from the regime of Giddy-Up Gillon.