Trip to Adelaide for Daniel Sheppard

Recently, we embarked on a trip to Adelaide to pay our respects at the memorial plaque and seat on the foreshore of Semaphore Beach dedicated to Andrea’s missing and presumed murdered brother, Daniel. Additionally, we sought to visit Andrea’s immediate family during this somber visit.

On 31 December 1994, Daniel Sheppard, aged 19 years, attended New Year’s Eve celebrations with his brother and friends at Lennies Tavern Glenelg, before catching a tram into the city to continue celebrations in Hindley Street, Adelaide.

In the early hours of New Year’s Day 1995, Daniel walked alone to the Adelaide Railway Station and boarded the 4.13 am train to Outer Harbour in order to go home.

There were approximately 30 other commuters on the train, including three females he knew from school. On the train Daniel told two of the girls: “I’m partied out … I’m going home to crash.”

Daniel was described as being moderately intoxicated but still in control of his faculties.

At 4.35am Daniel got off the train at the Port Adelaide Train Station and was seen on the southern pedestrian ramp walking towards Baynes Place.

The walk home should have taken 10 minutes but Daniel was never seen again.

He is suspected to have been murdered.

A $200,000 remains on offer to anyone who provides information that leads to the recovery of his remains and/or a conviction in this case.

It is never too late to speak up and share what you know, without saying who you are.

Contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or go to www.crimestopperssa.com.au

(Source: https://crimestopperssa.com.au/media-releases/case-profile-daniel-sheppard-2/)

Australia Day 2025

BBQ for Australia Day

Crayfish Medalions, Chicken Skewers and Mini Capsicum

48th Wedding Anniversary - Amethyst Anniversary, 8th January 2025

The 48th wedding anniversary is known as the Amethyst anniversary, and the gemstone associated with it is amethyst. Amethyst symbolises wisdom and peace, and represents the tranquility and harmony that a couple may find in their relationship after 48 years of marriage.

Christmas 2024

The gingerbread house after Russia took it over.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept a Sonnet

The standard you walk past is the one you take,

And what you leave unchecked, you choose to make.

We hold the power to stand up and act,

To challenge wrongs when they are clear and fact.

My brother grew in joy, with family by his side,

Yet, early on, a darker truth did hide.

Though mischief came, remorse he never knew,

His guilt was sparse unlike his siblings, too.

In youth, the signs of strife were hard to see,

A sociopath, they call it now, you see.

He showed no care for right, nor others' pain,

A life of taking, but of loss, no gain.

Through youthful years, his crimes did multiply,

From theft to harm, beneath the watchful eye.

His friends and kin were targets of his need,

And soon, the law would see the guilty deed.

In time, he learned to dodge a harsher fate,

By turning on his own, and sealing hate.

Some forty years have passed, and still they burn

His acts of treason, they will not return.

For years, his ways were marked with fraud and lies,

With theft and guilt, beneath the world’s disguise.

He broke his vows, betrayed his kin and trust,

A man of greed, to whom no love was just.

He took from death, from those who could not speak,

To steal from them his conscience still too weak.

When called to say goodbye to mother’s side,

He turned away, with none but selfish pride.

At last, when she had passed, he made no show,

No grief, no tears just left us here below.

Yet still, he took his share of all she gave,

Her love denied, for selfishness too brave.

A friend had died, and there he came to stand,

To shake my hand, though none did understand.

I looked him down, and spoke with scorned dismay

"Not here, not now, no handshake comes today."

And still I said, as anger filled my chest,

"And please, don’t steal just let the past rest."

It stung, but freed my mind from toxic chains,

A quiet peace arose to quell the pains.

Forgiveness comes, though not without its toll

The heart is scarred, but pain may take its role.

I’ll forgive, though trust is never more,

For his betrayal haunts me at the core.

Our mother, kind, would still forgive today,

Yet in her grave, her love is swept away.

His final wrongs, she could not now erase,

Denied her heart, her soul, and her embrace.

So, though the world may treat him as before,

I cannot let him be what he was yore.

For silence speaks, and kindness aids deceit,

And leaves unchecked the truth that lies beneath.

Cod Season 2024

1 carp no cod :-(

Murray River near Echuca Victoria.

The camp.

Bloody teenagers and their phones.