February 2023
Hair
Our plan was to write about hairstyles. Many of our family photos feature the hairstyles that were popular at the time, so…
Auntie Beat
October 2022
Women’s Work
Like women throughout history, most of the women in our family have had the primary job of parent and homemaker. Those homes…
March 2019
Auntie Bert, a “sterling character”
These three young women are our grandmother Alfreda on the left, with her two younger sisters, Beatrice in the middle and Berta…
November 2017
The Farm
About 1950, our mother’s aunt, Beat, and her husband Bill sold up their grocery store and their Balwyn house, took their youngest…