July 2018
Fred’s films
My first boyfriend, later husband, Fred, has been out of our lives for a long time. Sue and I have written about…
1960s
April 2018
Decade by Decade
Five hours of Alice and Marge’s family stories finishes with an overview. Strikingly, Alice did most of this by herself, without notes.…
November 2016
The Demon Drink
Alcoholic drinks hardly ever entered our world. We were aware that the communion “wine” used by our own Presbyterian church was actually…
October 2016
“Are you up to it?”
All the kids in the neighbourhood walked to school. It’s what kids have done for ever. We went to Bennettswood State School…
September 2016
Family camping
Our grandparents and parents had camped as young adults, so living in third world conditions in order to be able to enjoy…
July 2016
Twenty-Eight Moore Street
Alice describes the acquisition of the land in Box Hill South in 1946: Dad built the house over the following six years,…
November 2015
Sue, Margaret, Rikki and Fred
Susan:The 1960s was rather a bleak period in my life. The break up of our parents’ marriage, and the aftermath, had a…