Memories
- Oct- 2017 -14 October
Three Decades in the Hills
Change is inevitable but is also manageable. Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated more than three decades of…
Read More » - Sep- 2017 -29 September
Rookwood Cemetery
Rookwood is one of the largest cemeteries in the world, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere and the last operating…
Read More » - 17 September
Sunday Drive
It’s Spring and it’s Sunday. So much to do and see, open gardens, festivals and fetes and even open house…
Read More » - 17 September
Black Box is a Beast
Australian Pump introduced the Black Box pressure cleaner to Australia around a year ago. During that period, professional and hobby…
Read More » - 3 September
Just cruising
Now I guess many of you have gone cruising. I am talking nautical and not the “Yank Tanks” of the…
Read More » - Aug- 2017 -26 August
Our Beginning…
Piet and Lisa and two daughters aged seven and five came on the Dutch migrant ship “Johann Van Oldenbarnveld” on…
Read More » - 8 August
Housing Affordability in the 50’s & 60’s
[vc_row][vc_column][us_post_title][vc_column_text]Housing affordability has been a problem for families and politicians for many decades. In past articles I have written about…
Read More » - Jul- 2017 -25 July
Living in a migrant camp
“Populate or perish” was a call being made around Australia immediately after the cessation of hostilities at the end of…
Read More » - 9 July
Ten pound poms
Life for migrants back in the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘6Os and earlier was much different to that of migrants of…
Read More » - Jun- 2017 -25 June
Bread delivery & street vendors
“EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!” would be the call of the newspaper vendors after calling out the headline of…
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