Random thoughts and observations
I lived through 348 days of 1967, and although I don’t remember any of it, I’m sure it was a very good year.
I was born at the West Gippsland Hospital in Warragul and my parents lived just a few miles away towards Nilma.
Looking back on 1967 it seems to have been a break-out year, with post-war austerity largely forgotten, but Vietnam serving to threaten peace and prosperity.
I was sorry to hear that George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman series, died this week at the age of 82. I’ve read all the Flashman books and I had hoped there were more to come. As described neatly in The Age: “Flashman, published in 1969, imagined Harry Flashman, the bullying schoolboy of 19th-century [...]
Margaret has her first dancing concert next Saturday. She has been attending dance lessons for most of this year and the concert will be the grand finale. I went along to watch the girls practice several weeks ago and it’s quite a sight. I’ve got no idea how the instructor manages to maintain the attention [...]
I took the twins to see Dorothy the Dinosaur’s Dance Party today at the Kalgoorlie Town Hall. They didn’t actually get into it as much as I’d expected. The organisers wisely limit the show to about one hour, which is about the attention span for the target audience of three-year-olds and parents. Dorothy is a [...]
Something prompted me to think this morning about Australian sayings which are no longer in common usage. He’s got Buckley’s hope Owes its origins to convict William Buckley who landed with David Collins’ expedition to found a settlement on Westernport Bay in Victoria. Buckley escaped, the settlement was abandoned and he spent the next 32 [...]
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