Hi Fighter, I’m currently in New Delhi, slowly making my way back home after completing our latest ‘Boxers for Peace’ mission in Syria. Unfortunately, in order to get the cheapest tickets, I had to opt for a 12 hour wait between flights in Dubai and a seven-hour wait here. Even so, nothing can dampen my […]
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Boxers for Peace chalk up another success in Syria! Read More »
Hi Fighter, Forgive me for being out of touch for so long. As you may know, I took a month’s long-service leave shortly after returning from Syria and I tried to go dark for a while. That’s a term normally used by spies so perhaps it’s not really appropriate in my case. My point is
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Heading back to Syria! Read More »
Hi Fighter, I’ve been to Syria, I’ve come back, and at the moment I’m sick in bed. I guess I’ve been pushing myself a bit too hard, but I’m now on long-service leave and will hopefully get a bit of a break. People have been asking me how I would sum up our Syria experience
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It was quite surreal – enjoying the sunshine as we stood on the doorstep of Yarmouk – an area that the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, recently described as Syria’s “deepest circle of hell”! Admittedly, we were on the right side of the dividing line between the ISIS-controlled section of Yarmouk and the greater area controlled
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Hi Fighter, This is Father Dave with another far-too-infrequent update for you. I’m afraid the last three weekends have been a roller-coaster ride for me and I am somewhat exhausted: Week 1: we had our fundraiser dinner – raising more than $6,000 towards sending our boxing team to Syria. Week 2: we took another dozen
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Getting ready for Syria Read More »
Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave. It’s been too long since I’ve communicated with you. 🙁 It’s not that I’ve been having a holiday (I wish). On the contrary, I’ve been struggling with a workload that threatens to overwhelm me at times, and I’ve got two major projects on the boil at the moment, and I’m looking
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Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave back with you. Christmas is past (exhausting yet wonderful as ever) and it’s time for us to go bush! 🙂 Our bush weekend away at Binacrombi is just around the corner – January 16th to 18th – and you are invited! It will be a physical and spiritual fitness weekend where
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Hi Fighter, Father Dave here, and I’m starting this missive from sunny Binacrombi Bush Camp where we are about to ‘re-ignite’ things. No, we’re not about to start a bush fire but we have been closed for the last few weeks while we’ve been upgrading the water system and the power system, repairing the tracks
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Christmas is almost upon us! Read More »
G’day Fighter, As you might guess from the title and from the slide-show tribute above, the ‘Fighting Father Dave’ Compass episode is now online. Indeed, it’s embedded a few lines below! 🙂 This should please many of our non-Australian Fighting Fathers who couldn’t view the show when it aired on ABC TV two Sundays back,
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Hi Fighter, I’m actually going to make two appeals to you today. The first is a simple one: please watch this Sunday night’s edition of “Compass” on ABC TV (Australia). Post by Compass. Mind you, I have not been given any special preview beyond this 30-second snippet so it is possible that this screening will cost
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
An appeal from Father Dave Read More »
