Not on first dates

This week’s story just sort of fell in my lap, when one of the ladies asked for help digitising a photo so they could get it published in the paper to see if anyone could date it. Well that sounded like a nice challenge and I of course said “leave it with me; I’ll let…

Hot and Steamy

Queensland Rail is celebrating 150 years this year. As a part of the celebrations a commemorative steam train is making a journey from Brisbane to Far North Queensland, and last Saturday the train stopped in Oakey. So this week I thought I’d have a look around and see what other interesting snippets I could find…

Mum’s The Word

Friday sort of crept up on me this week, a bit like Mother’s Day. I was looking around for something to write about (I’m a bad son, I forgot about Mother’s Day) and the boss suggested something about the cold weather kicking in. In true Jamie style, I leapt from “brrr” cold to flu colds,…