I wrote about growing up in one of these beautiful houses in my childhood memoir Over the Top with Jim, but it wasn't until I travelled overseas to Hong Kong with my tennis playing mate Ken Fletcher, and then on to China and Russia and Europe and London where I worked as a reporter, and then to Vietnam as a war correspondent, did I realise how precious they are. Since I got back to Brisbane, I've written lots of articles about how beautiful these houses are, and how they should be preserved. They are an endangered species: knocked down to make way for apartments.

When I get used to travelling on the internet I'll put some of my stories on this page.