In this classic memoir, Patrick O’Brien gives us a glimpse of the current premier’s home territory. Annastacia Palasczcuk is from Inala. Pat explains what that means by recalling the time his middle-class rugby league team took on the street-hard boys from down that way.
Confessions of a Klutz
March 15, 2015 by 19 Comments
Everyone has something to ‘fess up to. Emma Westwood decides now is the right time, before this Almanac thing gets messy.
BRAINBUSTER !!!
March 3, 2015 by 27 Comments
Who was your favourite professional wrestler and what were some of the more memorable holds? Wrestling is a language, can’t you read?
They Don’t Make Them Like This Bloke Anymore.
March 3, 2015 by 18 Comments
Terms like legend and great man get thrown around too easily these days, but Dips O’Donnell had the chance to knock off a few Crownies with a genuine legend and a bona-fide great man: Lunching with the Almanac’s favourite Gadabout.
Celebrating Essendon’s Back to Back Flags
March 3, 2015 by 8 Comments
Ahead of their 30th Anniversary and reunion celebrations later this year, Wesley Hull recalls a time of great joy for many Essendon fans: the back-to-back years of 1984 and 1985. [I still tear up in joy watching Leon Baker’s blind turn goal in the last quarter that starts the comeback avalanche! – Ed]
Creating an Aura from a Season: 1994
February 25, 2015 by 22 Comments
In a fine Almanac debut, Geordie McMillan takes us way way back to the days of attacking football and enigmatic non-Victorian footballers, as lived by a gangly 16 year old – himself.
Foody Almanac : Are you a pie or pastie person?
February 24, 2015 by 31 Comments
Peter Baulderstone launches (lunches?) into the Foody Almanac with the origins of his love for pasties. Who would have thought that footy, childhood and sex would be at the root of our food fancies. Are you a pie or a pastie person?
David Essex…..and me
February 13, 2015 by 11 Comments
When your adolescent fantasy turns into an adulthood reality. Tess Pryor recalls the in-the-flesh meeting of her teenage idol. [A brilliant and humorous tale – Ed]
1983: Fitzroy a Threat for the Flag!
February 11, 2015 by 12 Comments
Harry ‘The Hammer’ Hatzis shows his Fitzroy badge of honour in a victory for the ages.
The Hammer
February 9, 2015 by 18 Comments
Phil Dimitriadis introduces you to Harry ‘The Hammer’ Hatzis, a Fitzroy fan with vivid memories.
Living and Breathing Tamworth
February 6, 2015 by 8 Comments
In Tamworth for the annual music festival, Andrew Starkie encounters a woman named Angeline.
Hertfordshire: Harry Potter and the Cheeky Half Pint
February 5, 2015 by 18 Comments
If you’ve ever wondered where the name St Albans came from – indeed if there even IS a Saint Albans, Mickey Randall is here to help. Now with extra Harry Potter, and recollections of youthful exuberance in Ol’ Blighty.
Kyrgios and The Cod
January 30, 2015 by 10 Comments
Dips O’Donnell meditates on the crumbling facades of old houses and ageing tennis champions.
Jim, the Olympics and the Forgetting
January 29, 2015 by 7 Comments
It is a cold, wet Melbourne day. Tess Pryor – on a mission to have the housework done in time to watch Sally Pearson strut her stuff at the London Olympics, meets old mate Jim struggling to find his friend’s house…
Hurlingham Park
January 27, 2015 by 2 Comments
Braham Dabscheck recalls a childhood of shattering the Donath’s dining room windows with sweetly-timed leg-side pull shots in street cricket, competing against mates and neighbours at the hallowed grounds of Hurlingham Park in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs, which sorted the men out from the boys and creating lifelong friendships and memories in equal measure.
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