Step 1: Get a hammer. Step 2: Find a nail. Step 3: ??? This week’s poem by Kevin Densley gives us his simple how-to guide for using a hammer. A tool for more than one occasion perhaps?
Round 2 – St Kilda v Geelong: Generations Assemble.
Dips catches up with some cousins for the Saints v Cats match to reminisce on games past, to preview the game, and unfortunately, see their team go down.
Round 2 – Essendon v Adelaide: Crows cause a Bomber crash landing!
Another long trip home to Colac from the MCG for Col after a disappointing Essendon crash landed against an ominous looking Adelaide side.
Almanac Travel: Travel Shorts NYC #2
Ian Wilson continues his recount of his visit to New York in his series’Travel Shorts’. Part 2 Ian is out and about in Brooklyn.
Sal’s Preview 2025 – Round 2: It’s not me, It’s you
It’s tough being a Bagger.
Almanac Horse Racing: Off The Rails
Dandy Andy has some tips for a huge day of Group 1 racing in both Melbourne and Sydney.
Almanac Music: ‘Hold your breath and count to ten’ – Songs Involving Falling
In this latest instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song, the topic is songs involving falling. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
NRL 2025, Round 2: Rabbit in the Vineyard – Souths go back to back!
RITV is happy to see Souths win back to back games first up in the 2025 NRL season. Should Jye Gray forfeit his position in the team to accommodate Latrell Mitchell when the latter returns from injury?
NRL 2025, Round 3: Prop by the Sea – You gotta love footy!
Prop pinpoints the pressure spots already emerging after only two rounds of the NRL season. Plus he shows us a whole new side of himself in a revealing portrait!
Almanac (Regional) Racing: Way Out West
Dandy Andy returns to cover regional racing of all varieties – harness racing, jumps racing and greyhound racing.
NRL 2025, Round 3: Anyone for humble pie?
Round 2 of the NRL demonstrated that you shouldn’t count on your expectation of roast Chooks before they have a chance to crow.
Footy Almanac Lunch: Sydney (March 29)
Here’s a colourful reminder of our Almanac lunch coming up in Sydney on March 29. (Design by the marketing team at Souths Juniors – Ed.)
Almanac Life: Home and Away
Peter Fuller has had a hectic few weeks or so visiting an ill friend in Queensland as Cyclone Alfred hit; watching his beloved Blues lose a match everyone thought they would easily win, and some running to alleviate his frustrations.
Almanac Golf: Golf – it can give you the shits!
Bernard Whimpress recalls his attempts to break par off the stick at the North Adelaide golf course. Whenever one did look likely, Bernard was thwarted by shit luck, and in more ways than one!
Round 1 – Sydney v Brisbane: Unfamiliar Parameters
Mathilde de Hauteclocque returns with a heartfelt rumination on her feelings for the red and white
Almanac Music: Vale – Jesse Colin Young
Jesse Colin Young of The Youngbloods is the latest icon from the music world to join the great gig in the sky passing away a couple of days ago aged 83.
Round 2 – AFL Footy Fixture 2025: Who, where, when?
Find out who, where, and when your team is playing in AFL season 2025.
The Fall of the Duck
The crash landing reflected the disgrace of the act implies Damian Ballassone in his latest offering.
Almanac Music: The Over the Hill Blues
Matt Gately grooved to the sights and sounds of The SummerSalt Tour 2025 when it featured in Batemans Bay NSW recently.











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