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One of Kathleen’s friends gave her goldfish for her birthday. She always wanted goldfish, for some reason. I asked her if they would get bored swimming around their tiny bowl, but she claims they can only remember things for three seconds. It takes about four seconds to swim around the…
March 5 2010, 12:00am | Comments »
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We returned to Mount Gambier today after a lovely two-week holiday in the Alpine Shire region of North East Victoria, where we used to live. The video shows the kids jumping into the Ovens River at Porepunkah. We stayed in a four-bedroom holiday house on the Buffalo Creek Road, south…
January 23 2010, 1:18am | Comments »
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We were curious when we returned to Porepunkah to see if Dude’s oak tree was still there. When he was three or four years old, about 10 years ago, my parents gave Michael and Kathleen each an acorn, which they planted in pot plants. Kathleen’s failed to grow, while Michael’s…
January 14 2010, 10:10pm | Comments »
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Early start, long drive, hot day
I was awake about 3am this morning and we left Mount Gambier at 5am with first light just breaking. We caught the sun rising over a ridge near Casterton (pictured). The drive took us to Hamilton, Glenthompson, Ararat, Avoca, Maryborough, Bendigo, Shepparton and Benalla before crossing to Myrtleford along the…
January 11 2010, 12:38am | Comments »
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Happy Christmas to all readers! The twins were slow off the mark this morning after having trouble getting to sleep last night. Once they were settled in bed I crept outside their bedroom window and called out “Ho ho ho, merry Christmas”. Juliet went to check on them and they…
December 24 2009, 4:23pm | Comments »
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Halloween was never observed in Australia until the past few years, as far as I can remember. It happened suddenly one year we were living at Porepunkah that several neighborhood kids, dressed in costumes, knocked on our door for “trick or treat”. It was a novelty then and we found…
October 27 2009, 4:47am | Comments »
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This is a picture of my great uncle Peter Wassenberg. He served in the Dutch Army in the 1930s. The Dutch were neutral in the First World War, but Hitler wouldn’t let them claim that privilege in the second. The Netherlands were easily overrun in the early days of the…
October 17 2009, 2:39am | Comments »
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When we left Porepunkah in early 2006 we sadly said good-bye to Snowy the pup. He was the first dog we had owned since Juliet and I had children. The big kids liked him and the twins grew up with him. We wanted to take Snowy with us to Western…
September 17 2009, 5:45am | Comments »
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I went to the weekly school assembly today after we had a tip off that Maggie would be presented with an award. It turned out to be the “Persistent Percy” award for “persistently having a go at writing her own stories”. The assembly was cute. With only about 90 children…
May 26 2009, 3:23am | Comments »
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