2026 NRL – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy! – Round 5

Prop by the Sea has gone all Bee Gees this week, a soundtrack with which many of us of slightly advanced years will certainly identify. Does anyone remember George Wallace and ‘Theatre Royal’ from the early 60s with the Gibb kiddies in their white t-shirts, shorts, socks and sandshoes? (‘Cucumber Castle’, Prop? I, for one, recall that! – Ed.)

Almanac History – What happened on the twelfth of the twelfth?

Ian Hauser continues our series of ‘on this day’ posts. It’s a special one for him, the twelfth of the twelfth, with the focus on cricket and the arts.

On Sunday we went to a lovely lunchtime wedding in a park

Mickey Randall spent Sunday at a lovely wedding in a park. It was the kind of day that reminds him of how much beauty there is in the world.