Almanac Poetry: Sitting on my Back Verandah on a Late September Evening

September 23, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Kevin Densley’s poem indicates that each season of the year announces itself ahead of time – we get a feeling of what is to come beforehand.

Almanac Music: Song of the Seasons (Song Lyric)

July 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Partly inspired by Almanackers’ responses to his group of posts concerning Oz songs connected to particular seasons, KD puts forward a song lyric he wrote as an eighteen-year-old that encompasses all four of them.

Almanac Poetry: Death of a Bantam

November 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Today, Kevin Densley’s poem is on love, death and a nobly-lived life.

Crio’s racing

September 6, 2012 by 49 Comments

The marketing campaign may have changed but the quality of racing at Flemington in the spring remains the same. Crio gives his first tips of the season.

‘Tis the season for a sickie

October 26, 2011 by 17 Comments

  by Andrew Gigacz   I’m sitting in the office looking out at a beautiful sunny Melbourne spring day. This would be a perfect day to activate one of my “seasonal leave” days, I reckon. Or it would be, if such a thing existed.   I first came up with the concept of seasonal leave [Read more]