I’ve recently come to realise that one aspect of our family’s traditional life has faded into obscurity, due to a blend of improved circumstances, general disorganisation, and a social trend to eating out in cafes and restaurants. In our case, I suspect that it was the move to Darwin’s hot humid climate that contributed as … More Monday Memories: Weekend picnics
From the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to the coast, the people celebrate culture and make merry with dances and traditional costumes. For some reason these warriors from Wahgi came to mind when I looked at the Sepia Saturday merry makers. They were at the enormously popular Goroka Show in, I think, 1972. Seeing thousands … More Sepia Saturday PNG Merry Makers
Today is another Sepia Saturday– Monday Memories combined post. The theme this week is sleeping babies, reading and related memories. The image prompt shows a woman reading quietly while her baby sleeps tranquilly. Most mothers would roll their eyes at this, thinking of how tired and busy they were with small children. Perhaps I was … More Tura Lura Lura – hush little bubba
How could I resist this wonderful Sepia Saturday prompt which had passed me by until I read Jollett Etc’s post today? The koala is, of course, a key icon of Australia – they look cuddly and cute, even if all they do is sleep much of the day and between-times munch on a gum leaf … More Sepia Saturday: Aussie royalty – the koala
In my daughter’s memory photo album I wrote “where there’s a Cass, there’s a cat”. Very true, but equally so of my own family as the various photos here will attest. From my earliest days to today I’ve been without a cat for only a few short months – and felt myself off-kilter and at … More Monday Memories: My life in cats
Turns out this was a trickier meme than I thought when I amended my own Music Meme. Of course I can never just keep it short and snappy, but here’s my own response. What’s the earliest movie you can remember: Fantasia – I went to see this with my mum and my great-aunt Emily in … More My Own Merry Month of May Movies
My friend Sharn from FamilyHistory4U blog has set us all a Christmas geneameme challenge.In previous years I’ve posted on the Geneabloggers’ Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories and this meme offers a change of pace for me. I’m lucky that I’ve been able to check with mum on a couple of the questions. 1. What kind of … More So this is Christmas 2014 – a geneameme
Funny how things turn out isn’t it? All along my plan was to write my Sepia Saturday post on Kathmandu…after all my photos fitted the theme perfectly. Then I went off the idea, and life got in the way as I worked on photo books of our last holiday. The universe had other plans though, … More Sepia Saturday (or Tuesday): Kathmandu tales
Given the propensity for front page news to be all about disasters, you might be surprised that this is my mental starting point for today’s Sepia Saturday theme. You see it was the one and only time I’ve made the front page, and in my first term of high school no less. One way to … More Tents, glorious tents
Last Saturday’s Sepia Saturday 242 theme was fans, costumes etc in which host and coordinator Alan amused with his comments:I have never been a fan of fans. Whether they are slats of painted paper or those large metallic jobs that whirr around and threaten to lift your hairpiece into space, I would never volunteer to act … More Sepia Saturday 242: A costume fan
Family history across the seas 