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Diary Australia

Christmas diary

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

My earliest memory of a Christmas holiday is of driving up to Darwin with Dad in his first car, a Mini Minor. Just him and me, always special to a son, with mum and my brother to fly up after us from Adelaide to our new home. It was a bright and vast new world I was seeing through the windscreen of the Mini, and north of Tennant Creek we stopped at the memorial to Flynn of the Inland.

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