Behind the Barr

“A conversation could change a life.” – R U OK? Day Last Thursday (13 th September) was the fourth annual R U OK? Day. Launched in ...

Last weekend with our junior football commitments over (sadly) for another year, the boys and I travelled the two short hours nort...

Next weekend (September 15 th – 16 th ) our enthusiastic and progressive foodies of the Red Gum Food Group will be celebrating th...

The pressure was on in our home last week; the youngest member of the House of Barr, Henry was turning ten. Despite valiant efforts on m...

Just the other day I discovered a whole new world; the literary nirvana of attending my first ever writer’s festival.   At a frien...

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” – Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) A thought provoking quote tha...

Last week marked the first anniversary of my weekly column Behind the Barr. And who would have thought (least of all me), that I would st...

The last few weeks I have been getting back into the swing of things and life in Barham. After four weeks of non-stop adventuring around E...

I hate it when it’s dark and my brain goes, “Hey, you know what we haven’t thought about for a while? Monsters!” The Greek phi...

On Wednesday last week Edgar and I managed to successfully board the 12.24pm Eurostar London to Paris train. Travelling at speeds ...