Profile A Chat With - Shirley McGrath “...We had the agreement that Danny’s job was the trucks, as he’d sold the farm by then, and mine was raising the children. It was very traditional and it worked well for us....“ Ali Bohn 28 Mar 2024
Profile A Chat With - Ian Hare “...When I was older, I rode my pony Trixie to school. It was a great joke putting our friends on her and watching them get pigrooted off! Nobody could stay on but me!” Ali Bohn 14 Mar 2024
Profile A Chat With - Eileen Connelly “...Happiness would have to be if I could see my kids more, because they’re mine and I’m so proud of them. I get kisses from them and that makes me feel like a million dollars...” Ali Bohn 29 Feb 2024
Profile A Chat With - Marion May “...Everyone went through pretty tough times, yes, but you just plugged through and didn’t get too bothered by it. It does you no good to worry about it, it does you no good to worry about anything....” Ali Bohn 01 Feb 2024
Profile A Chat With - Dulcie Smale “...I told them that if they wanted me to meet him it would be on my terms first!...” Ali Bohn 14 Dec 2023
Profile A Chat With - David Peel “...I remember a few of the boys cut every second spoke on the wheels of his bike. He was very hard on some of them, so that’s why they did it...” Ali Bohn 30 Nov 2023
Profile A Chat With - Neil McKenzie “...I got my junior swimming certificate swimming underwater! The teacher wasn’t too impressed and said that he should have failed me for ‘cheating’!” Ali Bohn 09 Nov 2023
Profile A Chat With - John Thomas “...I happened to find the strap one day and I put it on the railway tracks – I have no idea how I got hold of it!” Ali Bohn 05 Oct 2023
Profile A Chat With - John Hunter ...and it so happened that at the time, the Olympics were being held in Melbourne, so my mother was fortunate to get some tickets for her, Dad and I to go. That was quite an exciting thing to be able to see. Ali Bohn 14 Sep 2023
Profile A Chat With - John McDonald “No, I wasn’t afraid, we had our trip planned out and would discuss it each night in the tent. We did have a run-in with the police.” Ali Bohn 10 Aug 2023
Profile A Chat With - Audrey James “I went through hell. Losing a baby was just… you never forget it… My parents helped me a lot when I lost Little Odger… I didn’t have time to think about how I felt, nature tells you to get on with things...” Ali Bohn 08 Jun 2023
Profile A Chat With - Jenny Johnson “We had simple rules for all children who came to visit – no pinching, punching or tickling. Everyone was respectful and everyone had a lot of fun and helped with the chores.” Ali Bohn 11 May 2023
Profile A Chat With - Nancy Spence “I’d tell the kids I was cooking rabbit, and they’d say ‘no thanks’. I’d tell them I’d cook them something else, only to serve them up the rabbit.” Ali Bohn 23 Mar 2023
Profile A Chat With - Lewis Gray - part 2 “I was on clover really,” he said, “I was getting paid twenty seven pound ten a week, damn good money then.” Bridge Contributors 09 Mar 2023
Profile A Chat With - Lewis Gray - part 1 “I was still only sixteen,” he said, “and my first three missions were on islands around Java. I was dropped off by myself in a kayak by an American submarine...” Bridge Contributors 02 Mar 2023
Profile A Chat With - Merle Connolly I knew from the moment I saw Merle Connolly that her story was going to be an interesting one. Ali Bohn 02 Feb 2023
Profile A Chat With - Audrey Rogers Of the eighty or so people I have interviewed for our regular ‘chat with’ feature, no two stories are similar. The vastly different backgrounds of every person I speak to never fails to offer an exciting glimpse into their lives, and I have... Ali Bohn 10 Nov 2022
Profile A Chat With - Jim Eagle (vale) When I first made contact over the phone with today’s ‘chat,’ I knew within the first few moments of talking to him that this gentleman... Ali Bohn 20 Oct 2022
Profile A Chat With... Greg ‘Slug’ Thompson “This community has been so bloody good to me, and I am forever grateful for their support...” Ali Bohn 29 Sep 2022