I'm a Queenslander by birth and after nearly 20 years in the Northern Territory I've returned to my home state. I've been researching my Queensland ancestors for nearly 30 years and like most Aussies I'm a typical "mongrel" with English, Irish, Scottish and German ancestry.
One of the biggest hazards of not having your A to Z posts pre-scheduled is that it restricts your time to visit others’ blog posts and comment. I certainly had that problem this year so much so I had to reduce my crime-novel indulgence <smile> My first priority was visiting “old” friends from the blogisphere, … More My A to Z reading – so far
It was another case of procrastination, thinking I could just chill out for a few days after finishing A to Z 2022. Then the days slipped away and I missed the deadline for the Reflections sign-up. Now, let’s be serious and think about some of the questions raised by the A to Z team. The … More Reflections on A to Z 2022
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. Do you think some photos to doorways in Zanzibar might show us the way through this year’s A to Z final entry? We visited Zanzibar after our safari trips in Kenya as it’s promoted for … More Zanzibar doorways and chilling
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. I’m really not sure that snippets of my youthful yesterdays will involve any Wows. They may even make you YAWN! Interspersed will be some retro fashion pics which may give you a Laugh, however. Reflecting … More Youthful Yesterdays
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. X-Ray Art Living in Darwin and Australia’s Top End, had the advantage of greater opportunities to see Indigenous art, often in an X-ray style, in various locations. We are always thought of as a young … More X-Ray Art and Xmas
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. See what I did there? Today is W on everyone else’s calendar while I covered it on Anzac Day so for me today is V. I don’t know about anyone else but as we near … More Venezia – WOW!
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. As we all know, wow moments don’t come along every day, otherwise they’d hardly generate a wow response. Instead, if we’re fortunate, we will get little bursts of joy that come into our lives and … More Unexpected delights and Uluru
You may be wondering why I’ve misplaced my alphabet but there is method is my “mistake” as today Down Under we commemorate Anzac Day. It has become traditional over the years to write a commemorative blog post for both Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. You can find mine by using the search box. While you … More War – Anzac Day
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. It’s not so much that there’s lots of WOW in most journeys by train, boat or plane – or car, or bus- which overall is probably a good thing as it would more likely be … More Trains, boats and planes
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. It had been “a long time between drinks”, as we say, since we’d visited Singapore but as an easy stop en route to India, February 2020 seemed a good time to have a stop-over not … More Singapore Supertrees and flowers
Family history across the seas 