May 2024
Pins and Needles
SUE Although I have grown up with sewing and sewers in my life, it has never captured my interest, until recently. I…
Everyday life
Ordinary domestic routines and material life.
October 2018
Drouin Christmas, 1975
The Christmas of 1975 was a huge and exciting enterprise. Jono and I were living in a beautiful house just outside Drouin.…
June 2018
The Croydon Years
Our mother’s and aunt’s formative years were spent in Croydon. Alice was six and Marge nine when they moved. They remember the…
December 2017
I can hear sleigh bells
Christmas has always been special time in our lives. It is not surprising, I suppose, as the whole of society gears up…
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…
September 2017
Meat and Three Vegs
Like many families, we were fairly poor as we were growing up. There were four children, only our father worked and "stuff"…
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…
August 2016
Heather Farm, Kilmore Junction ,1879
Stories we heard as children paint a picture of the lives of our great, great grandparents, Joachim and Martha Dau and the…
September 2015
Lunchtimes at Primary School 1950s
Both Sue and Margaret remember school games as going in crazes or fads. It was suddenly, as if by magic, swap card…