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HAVE A HOOT – HIRE A HOMESTEAD

HAVE A HOOT – HIRE A HOMESTEAD

john crook & david ellis  NEXT time you’re thinking about that special-occasion family shindig or a knees-up with all the mates, forget about worrying how you’ll fit ’em all into the sunroom and the backyard – head to NSW’s Central Tablelands and hire yourself a homestead. Not only will it come complete with enough rooms […]

HAVE A HOOT – HIRE A HOMESTEAD

HAVE A HOOT – HIRE A HOMESTEAD

john crook & david ellis  NEXT time you’re thinking about that special-occasion family shindig or a knees-up with all the mates, forget about worrying how you’ll fit ’em all into the sunroom and the backyard – head to NSW’s Central Tablelands and hire yourself a homestead. Not only will it come complete with enough rooms […]

WAITER, THERE’S A FIRE ENGINE IN MY SUITE

WAITER, THERE’S A FIRE ENGINE IN MY SUITE

John Crook & David Ellis SOME people collect toy trains, others antique cars or weird postcards, one bloke we know of seeks out the most tacky fridge magnets he can find while on his travels, and of course most families have someone with a penchant for postage stamps. But as well as running their Adelaide […]

WAITER, THERE’S A FIRE ENGINE IN MY SUITE

WAITER, THERE’S A FIRE ENGINE IN MY SUITE

John Crook & David Ellis SOME people collect toy trains, others antique cars or weird postcards, one bloke we know of seeks out the most tacky fridge magnets he can find while on his travels, and of course most families have someone with a penchant for postage stamps. But as well as running their Adelaide […]

KEY TO AUTHOR’S BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCE

KEY TO AUTHOR’S BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCE

david ellis ONE of the world’s most bizarre mysteries has fans of the who-dunnit genre as mystified today as when it involved Agatha Christie, the Grand Dame of Mystery herself, eighty years ago. And there are more unanswered questions now than those the writer’s very own mystery generated in 1926, with scenarios as baffling as […]

Agatha Christie Disappears. The Room 426 Mystery

Agatha Christie Disappears. The Room 426 Mystery

Pera Palas Hotel in Istanbul david ellis ONE of the world’s most bizarre mysteries has fans of the who-dunnit genre as mystified today as when it involved Agatha Christie, the Grand Dame of Mystery herself, eighty years ago. And there are more unanswered questions now than those the writer’s very own mystery generated in 1926, […]

KEY TO AUTHOR’S BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCE

KEY TO AUTHOR’S BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCE

david ellis ONE of the world’s most bizarre mysteries has fans of the who-dunnit genre as mystified today as when it involved Agatha Christie, the Grand Dame of Mystery herself, eighty years ago. And there are more unanswered questions now than those the writer’s very own mystery generated in 1926, with scenarios as baffling as […]

TWENTY-SIX MILES ACROSS THE SEA…

TWENTY-SIX MILES ACROSS THE SEA…

HOME on the range – bison (buffalo) descended from fourteen taken to Catalina Island for the making of The Last American TIME warp: Catalina Island’s Marlin Bar still sports its 1940s decoré WORLD’s only casino that outlaws gambling is on Catalina Island off California david ellis POP group The Four Preps assured us in 1958 […]

TWENTY-SIX MILES ACROSS THE SEA…

TWENTY-SIX MILES ACROSS THE SEA…

HOME on the range – bison (buffalo) descended from fourteen taken to Catalina Island for the making of The Last American TIME warp: Catalina Island’s Marlin Bar still sports its 1940s decoré WORLD’s only casino that outlaws gambling is on Catalina Island off California david ellis POP group The Four Preps assured us in 1958 […]

CARIBBEAN B&B’S AN EASY CELL

CARIBBEAN B&B’S AN EASY CELL

david ellis THE Dutch are marvels at creating engineering wonders on their home turf, but when they were asked back in the 1940s to build a road around and over the tiny island of Saba in the Caribbean’s Netherlands Antilles, they studied it long and hard and decided that “Nee – this is impossible,” and […]