Random thoughts and observations
When I started writing this post I thought the picture showed me standing in front of an EH Holden, aged 1, in 1968. After looking at some photos online however, I think it may be an EJ Holden. Unique Cars and Parts says: “Produced between 1961 and 1963, the EJ was the first of a [...]
Do you ever have random flashbacks? I don’t mean of harrowing events. It would be understandable to recall a war, physical assault or natural disaster. Sometimes I remember things randomly from the past. Little things, like finding a dead cow on the farm at Pambula. Or riding a bike in the rain. Some of these [...]
I’m becoming strangely addicted to Google Street View. This picture is from outside our house in Ceduna, where we lived in 1992-93. Kathleen was conceived there I doubt we’ll ever live on the foreshore anywhere ever again. I also doubt we’ll ever miss an opportunity again to buy a foreshore property for $130,000. Such is [...]
The 1982-83 Melbourne Ashes Test is special to me for several reasons. I was 15 years old and it was the only time my Dad took me to the city alone for consecutive days. We stayed at a motel in Carlton and made our way to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) each day for five [...]
A reader came into the newspaper office with a 1900 sixpence she had found in her small change, thinking it somewhat remarkable. I don’t think it’s amazing at all, but worthy of a blog post. I don’t handle much change these days except one and two dollar coins. When I was a child these were [...]
