they would give up this business and live a comfortable life. The job was so well done that the judge who sent them to prison for fifteen years each said it was the cleverest robbery of the century, and what a pity it was that their car had used up its petrol not far from the ...
Poor John and I spent today exploring in Cape Town, South Africa. Tomorrow we set sail on an expedition ship across the South Atlantic. Stops are Tristan de Cunha, South Georgia, the Antarctic Peninsula, and Ushuaia, Argentina. We’ve been to the Antarctic and Ushuaia before, but Tristan ...
More than 40 years ago, David and Barbara Carter from Crookwell created Pooh Bear’s Corner in an effort to distract their children’s pleas of ‘are we there yet’. Each time they passed, they put signs at Pooh’s Corner and hoped they wouldn’t get in trouble. Then they noticed othe...
As the thieves were trying to get away in their car, Roy drove his bus into the back of it. While the battered car was moving away, Roy stopped his bus and telephoned the police. The thieves' car was badly damaged and easy to recognize. Shortly afterwards, the police stopped the car ...