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…
Recollections archive
Stories
Every currently imported Recollections story, including project-history posts, is now available to read.
April 2022
Corona Virus – an annotated vocabulary
“Where were you when the world changed?” we wrote, a year ago, under the heading “The Year of Covid”. The world did…
March 2021
The Year of Covid
Where were you when the world changed? As we begin work on this new post, the first one since February, babies conceived…
February 2020
Tuesdays at Number 10 – Appraisal and Reflection
Since we began to tell our family stories in September 2015, the day has changed from Wednesday to Tuesday, the world has…
November 2019
The Built Environment – Box Hill
We grew up in Box Hill South in close proximity to Surrey Hills where our family has had an association for five…
July 2019
The Built Environment – Hawthorn
Our forebears have been part Melbourne since the 1850s. They came from Europe, Ireland and Great Britain, arriving at the Port of…
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 2018
Stella Park
Guelda and Polly Pyke were Jono’s father’s first cousins; and were always very much part of Jono's and his sister Anne's life.Polly…
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.…
August 2018
Poowong Footage
We introduced, in the previous blog entry, the recently unearthed visual chronicles from my first husband, Fred. Leafing through old photograph albums,…