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My Ankle Fracture Story

My ankle fracture story started with an elegant slip that ended in catastrophe. A fractured ankle is painful both physically and emotionally long after the first six weeks of no weight bearing on the affected leg ends. Life is temporarily…

Police Tracker Edgar Spring

Police Tracker Edgar Spring was buried a soldier in a simple grave in St John’s Churchyard, Reid, Canberra.  He served his state of NSW as a police tracker for nearly two decades in Cassilis, volunteered to serve his country in war, and…

Coombes Church, West Sussex

Coombes Church, West Sussex is famous for its medieval religious frescoes, discovered when a piece of plaster fell from a chapel wall during maintenance work in 1949. The Church, built into a hillside amidst lush pastoral surrounds has…

Tracking Down Ned Kelly

Tracking down Ned Kelly and searching for the place where he murdered three policemen on 26 October 1878 ended in a history scoop.  Clouds hung low over the Wombat Ranges making visibility poor and driving conditions hazardous but this…

Plastics Polluting Fairhaven Beach

Plastics polluting Fairhaven beach on Victoria's Surfcoast highlights a modern day environmental curse. Renowned for its rolling surf, rock pools, rugged beauty, imposing sand dunes and the Mad Max House, the beach is now choking with…

Treating Asthma With Smoke

Treating asthma with smoke is not a joke. Before the advent of inhalers and corticosteroid drugs asthma really was treated with smoke. Who would have thought smoke, a chief lung irritant, could successfully relieve an asthma attack?