The Tumbrel Diaries

I cannot now recall how I came into possession of an empty British diplomatic bag, but I fancy Charlie Curwen gave it to me more ...

I suspect I am becoming a fully paid-up, card-carrying bore, but sometimes I feel I could write an entire book about a single image—actually...

Before Christmas, Martha “Sunny” Sharp Crawford von Auersperg von Bülow, so named for her bright disposition, died in her suite at the Mary ...

Country tours were a lot of fun. At that time, around 1988, the Governor of Victoria had at his disposal two vice-regal carriages which co...

In the late 1980s, the oldest resident of the cottage at Government House was a Major Mitchell cockatoo called “Cocky McGrath,” whose death ...

I went to work for Davis McCaughey as one of the two aides at Government House, Melbourne, in December 1987, when I was twenty-three. I had...