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Neil’s Second Decade
- Christmas Eve: angels in West WollongongMount Keira Road Filed under: Australia, Christianity, events, inspiration, photo post, Wollongong
- The year my voice broke…Well probably. I speak of 1958 when I turned 15. The guy on the right is one of my 1958 friends, Roger Dye – brilliant athlete All to introduce the 1958 film Christmas in Australia. Yes it is total propaganda and so naive! Here we all are so happy and all middle class without a [...]
- Gong ChristmasSee The KidzWish Foundation. Bonus Filed under: Australia, inspiration, NSW, photo post, Wollongong
- Rappy ChristmasWollongong’s Crown Street Mall at lunchtime today. Filed under: Australia, multiculturalism, music, NSW, photo post, video post, Wollongong
- Batty Christmas!Enjoy the sights and sounds from the Bates Motel in the gloaming yesterday. Filed under: Australia, nature, photo post, video post, Wollongong
- Christmas Eve: angels in West Wollongong
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Pages arranged in order
- About
- Family stories 1 — mother
- Sutherland 02
- Neos
- Malcolm
- Writings 1 — A story
- 02 — a poem
- 03 — an essay from 1998: Literacy
- 04 — a learning journal from 1998: Literacy — My year with a Japanese Backpacker
- 05 — Old Blog Entries: 99-04
- 06 — Blogging Sydney’s Olympic Year 2000
- 07 — a controversy — For the record: the great SBHS race debate of 2002
- 08 — My South Sydney Herald feature article November 2007
- 09 — My Teachers
- 10. But is it art? Responses to the Bill Henson controversy of 2008
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Top Posts & Pages
- Family stories 3 -- About the Whitfields: from convict days
- Top poems 5: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- “The Oxen”
- More tales from my mother 4 -- Dunolly NSW -- and conclusions
- Family stories 2 -- About the Christisons
- Family stories 1 -- mother
- Redfern Visions 20: Elizabeth Street
- Neos
- 03 -- an essay from 1998: Literacy
- 07 -- a controversy -- For the record: the great SBHS race debate of 2002
- Closely watched planes 6: flying boats
- The Bard, a Rabbit, and Ninglun
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Top poems 5: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) — “The Oxen”
I find the people of Hardy’s generation quite fascinating. A N Wilson’s God’s Funeral is one interesting account of why this might be so, but in brief this was the generation that grew up deeply influenced either by evangelical Christianity, … Continue reading
Top poems 3: Robert Southwell “The Burning Babe”
It has been a while between poems here! With Christmas coming up, I thought I would post a few Christmas poems. This is perhaps the most bizarre, though I recall when first reading it at the age of sixteen being … Continue reading
Top poems 2: John Donne (1572-1631): Satire III — “Of Religion”
Written in a European world wracked by religious controversy and religious war, with conflicting truth claims further complicated by late Renaissance humanism, by the beginnings of a scientific world view, and by the impact of new worlds in the Americas … Continue reading
Top poems 1: The amazing web site of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
The amazing web site of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is not hype; it is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful sites on the Web. I go there for #1 in a new series on Ninglun’s Specials, where I promise not … Continue reading
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