Category: Our Stories…

  • Once bitten Aquos not shy…

    Once bitten Aquos not shy…

    For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Aquo. I’m outgoing, impulsive and straight down the line – people refer to me as ‘subtle like a sledge hammer.’ Five years ago, I started the blog Once bitten Aquos not shy… where I write about my accident, injuries, how I’ve rebuilt myself (into a freaking…

  • Aquo was almost not even a thought… Almost…

    My great grandfather Bertie Peri, my great grandmother Carmelina Peri and my grandfather Jack Aquilini and my grandmother Beattie Aquilini went up to Innisfail in the ute to look at purchasing a farm. They stayed overnight in Innisfail where they were ready to do the deal. In the morning when they woke up, my great-grandfather…

  • Our Stories – Part 2…

    After many years of having the horses pull the plow, the family had enough money to buy a D2 Caterpillar tractor from the United States. My great grandfather, Bertie Peri, was proudly driving his new tractor up and down the paddock when a big black car comes driving in from Master’s Road, Toobanna towards him.…

  • My son – the farmer…

    Farming has been apart of Jack’s life since he was born. Both myself & his father, as well as most of his grandparents and some of his great grandparents were also born into the farm life in the Hinchinbrook Shire – Being Townsville Road just past Andy’s Road House (BEST Hamburgers ever!), the Aquilini farm…

  • Aquo’s famous Sunday Sesh…

    The Urban Dictionary defines a Sunday Sesh as being short for “Sunday session”. The act of getting together on a Sunday to socialise and drink likely large amounts of alcohol. That’s not even a lie – it actually says that! For me, Sunday Seshs’ became somewhat of a tradition of mine just before I had my accident in September 2013. There…

  • Our Stories – part 1…

    My great grandfather Bertie Peri, who’s Italian name was Giovanni Batista Peri (John the Baptist) came out in 1920 when he was only fifteen when he wanted to come out to Australia, but being so young he needed a guardian to travel with him. Mr Pino Cominadi (whose descendants are still in the Ingham district,…

  • Struggles of a stay-at-home-mum during the Sugar Cane Harvesting Season

    So I started writing this article on the 19th August 2019, when the Sugar Cane Harvesting Season had only been running for maybe two months in the Herbert River District, I chose to write a little bit about the lifestyle and the struggles I have as an impaired stay-at-home mum. But, the truth is, every…

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