Mark ‘Swish’ Schwerdt revisits the battlefields of childhood, and the characters that made those informal test matches forever memorable in a story from 2014 reprised from the Footy Almanac archives.
Almanac Flashback – Bowled (Canna) Lily: Park Cricket in 1970s Elizabeth
November 15, 2019 by 27 Comments
Almanac Flashback – A Story-Teller’s Story Can Be A Beautiful Thing
October 22, 2019 by 11 Comments
Here is a fabulous Footy Almanac Flashback from Matt Zurbo about his good mate Bruce Pascoe. Ripper read!
Almanac Music: 50 Years Since Woodstock
August 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The 50 year anniversaries continue. Last week it was the iconic Abbey Road photo, this week it’s Woodstock. Where were you and what did it mean to you? Ian Hauser shares his memories.
Almanac Music – Famous Photo of Fab Four is Fifty!
August 8, 2019 by 7 Comments
The famous Abbey Road photograph of the Beatles is fifty years old today. Ian Hauser pays tribute and muses over various events of that time.
Almanac Memoir: My Grandfather Played Hurling
August 1, 2019 by 16 Comments
Smokie favours us with this story of his beloved grandfather, Neddy Dawson, and ponders the appropriate curation of Neddy’s century-old Hurley.
Almanac Life – Growing up with cars
July 19, 2019 by 4 Comments
Earl O’Neill looks back over three generations of family life through the perspective of the cars they owned and drove. It’s a testament to both change and its increasing pace over the last century.
Hey Charger!
June 17, 2019 by 18 Comments
Earl O’Neill reports about the development of his favourite Australian car, the Valiant E49 Charger, as his story explains. What is your favourite car?
An Ode to the Glorious Past
April 27, 2019 by 3 Comments
Joe Moore was privileged to sit with his grandmother during her final days and to experience her perspective and wisdom.
Almanac (Footy) Memoir: Statute of Limitations
April 17, 2019 by 4 Comments
Roger Lowrey has been sitting on a secret for a while. [Very entertaining debut piece! Ed]
Adelaide Oval in the Eighties: Rodney Hogg, Adidas Romes and Mondo Rock
April 5, 2019 by 11 Comments
‘Our world was still wonderfully small, and for a few days every summer Adelaide Oval was at its centre.’ Mickey Randall revisits a well spent youth where heaven was a day out at the cricket for the lads from Kapunda.
Three coins in a fountain, three Cols in a room!
March 20, 2019 by 6 Comments
Col, Col, and Col were all in the same room together! This gathering of Cols is a extremely rare event as Col explains.
The greatest of t-shirts
March 11, 2019 by 5 Comments
Got a favourite t-shirt? Earl O’Neill had 120 at one time! This is his story of a special one he bought in Zimbabwe. Earl also relives some of his experiences of his time in Zimbabwe.
Vampire Weekend’s Hannah Hunt
January 25, 2019 by Leave a Comment
It’s an enthralling, alliterative name. Say it aloud. Hannah Hunt. It’s easy to pronounce. There’s an affable rhythm, and linguists suggest the repetition of “H” creates romantic introspection explains Mickey Randall as he falls in love with Hannah Hunt.
It’s far from funny – but sometimes you just have to laugh!
January 18, 2019 by 22 Comments
Dementia has visited the Courtin clan, and sometimes you just have to see the funny side of the experience as Jan explains.
Almanac Summer: Simple Lethargic Motion
January 17, 2019 by 22 Comments
John Harms writes of summer heat in Oakey, Greek cafes and Physics.
Growing Old Gracefully – what’s that all about!
January 6, 2019 by 18 Comments
Growing Old Gracefully may be a euphemism, with the connotation “Showing signs of ageing, but still powering forward with life” being a positive one, but at times Jan Courtin simply refuses to believe that a mere statistic, telling her the number of years that she’s been around, matters at all! It doesn’t!
Martin Flanagan’s speech to the Grassroots Sports Club in Hobart, Spring 2019.
Martin Flanagan is one the country’s leading writers on Australian football. This is a timely speech about footy in Tassie which Martin gave in Hobart last weekend for the Grassroots Sports Club to raise money to buy sports equipment for disadvantaged kids.