June 2026
Excursion to Templestowe
Sue and I both remember our grandparents’ Templestowe house. Sue even remembers walking from the house with our grandfather: down to the…
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June 2026
Our Family in Wartime
We are Baby Boomers, the generation conceived and born, as normal life picked up again, after the end of the Second World…
September 2025
All The Posts – an annotated list
The annotated list of all the posts we have done, since we began, chronologically organised. September.2015Our Little Allie - our great aunt…
February 2025
Fire and Storm
MY COUNTRY By Dorothy MacKellar ‘I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains. I…
November 2024
Infant Jesus Catholic Church, Koroit
Jono and I were on a journey to view our new camper in South Australia, Murray Bridge. Our first stop, for a…
September 2024
Books of Our Childhood
Books have always played a large part in our lives and I cannot remember a time when we have not had a…
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…
November 2023
Are You Related to the McCormacks?
Over the years Sue and I have been writing our family stories, we have developed our own little tradition of excursions. We…
July 2023
Families Along the Goulburn
Recently we discovered a bit more about the Molesworth branch of our dad’s family. Down the rabbit hole we went. It took…
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…