Month: February 2012
Following Big Sister’s Lead
When you are four years old, it is important that you learn safe habits such as wearing a helmet when you are riding your bike. When you are tiny (not yet two), you learn by copying your elders. Head protection is essential when taking your dolly for a walk in the stroller because big sister […]
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Kokoda Track Video
Our trip along the Kokoda Track in 2002 coincided with the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Kokoda. This is when a small group of untrained, but exceptionally brave, Â Australians from several militia units encountered a significantly large force of Japanese soldiers in WW2. Later reinforced by full-time soldiers, their campaign along the Kokoda Track […]
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MONA – Hobart
We flew down to Hobart on Saturday to spend this weekend looking at some of the new things that we hadn’t seen before. The weather was cool with some occasional drizzle, but overall we found it to be quite mild and comfortable. On Saturday night, we were able to catch up with our friends Steve […]
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Great Uncle & Auntie (For the 3rd Time)
If we thought that being grandparents was a sign of our advanced years, being Great Uncle and Great Aunt is very much another reminder. When I was little, my Great Aunts seemed soooooo old. They were mostly spinsters, having been young in the days after WW1 when there weren’t enough men to go around after […]
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Table Tops
This news sheet was published for the Australian Troops in WW2 by the 1st Australian Press Unit, AIF. Its significance is clearly in its front page reporting of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1942. I came across it over the weekend when I was rummaging around my study and cleaning out […]
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Career Plans of a 4 Year Old
In an in-depth discussion yesterday, Audrey announced that she was having to think hard about the type of job that she would like when she was grown up. Her overwhelming desire was to become a princess, but she recognised that it wouldn’t be easy, as first she would have to find a prince to marry. […]
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Road Runner Diary
My diary of my time as a National Serviceman in Vietnam has been published by Lulu.com I called it the ‘Road Runner Diary’ because my platoon (85 Transport Platoon) was, in my time, known as the Road Runners. I prepared it from a small diary that kept while I was serving in Vietnam, along with […]
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Visiting Marysville After The Fires
This week we spent an afternoon in Marysville to see how it was progressing. Three years ago, this week, a giant ferocious bush fire destroyed the town and dozens of people lost their lives. We first re-visited the town a few months after the fires when local people were encouraging visitors as a way of […]
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