Newsletters: 2014

My oldest son got a B+ last week. In golf. That’s right, golf, that bizarre pastime of trying to get a small ball into a small hole, hundreds of metres away, with a variety of different priced sticks….. Now I have calculated that his school fees come to around about $110 per school day. I […]

From the feedback we received, it would appear that I am the only person over the age of 12 that didn’t know you couldn’t fly on a passport with less than 6 months to run. Silly me. But here’s something about passports you didn’t know. You can’t take a photograph of the new ones. The […]

Did you know that you can’t travel on a passport within 6 months of its expiry date? I do now. Let me set the scene. We are at the airport – Jenny and I and about 30 old friends off for a holiday ‘sans children‘ in Vanuatu. Many of us haven’t seen each other for […]

Welcome to this edition of Southern Cross Enews. As winter appears with a bang here in South East Queensland we are reminded just how lucky we are to live at this latitude. As I look out across the Bay this winter weather can only be described as magnificent. Not a cloud in the sky, a […]

Welcome to this edition of Southern Cross Enews. The Job family has grown by one in recent times with the addition of a Border Collie puppy late last year. The family have wondered why I so vehemently argued against getting a dog over the past 16 odd years. Noticing that I can’t pass any dog […]

May I begin by wishing you all a belated happy and prosperous 2014. Some outstanding results from Southern Cross old boys/girls in this year’s Sydney to Hobart Race! Firstly, well done to Tam Faragher and the crew on Kerumba with their magnificent 6th overall and 2nd in Division and 5th in ORiC. They sailed a […]