IAN KIRKWOOD
MEMO to high school students undertaking a geography assignment: think twice before choosing the Newcastle rail line closure as your subject.
MATT CAR
MOWING the lawn is a nightmare. Whether it’s the family home on a rural slope in my teens or the tiny but tricky city yards of my early 20s, I’ve always found pushing and dragging the mower around is just one of those jobs that’s too easy to make excuses for.
MELINDA McMILLAN
NOBBYS Head will always be Nobbys to Novocastrians – a glorious, small arch of coast reshaped by the effort of convict labour when a break wall was painstakingly constructed over a period of 38 years to connect Coal Island to the coast.
TIM CONNELL
IF it’s in the sea around Newcastle, Andrew Griffiths has it covered. No joke. Everything from rough surf to rogue submarines; he’s master gunner at Fort Scratchley, and captain at Nobbys Surf Club.