Family Food Fare and Favourites Join me as I dig through my memories, and recipes, to rediscover my family’s food “back in the day” and how those food habits have changed over the decades to today’s diverse and multi-cultural cuisines. This is my theme for the 2021 A to Z challenge. THEN Y was silent … More Yoghurt, Yams and Yabby Tails
As this series was all about my early years and those of our own family, I had to include some Christmas photos. I’m not going to write much about the different Christmases here because I’ve written extensively about them in the Advent Series a year ago. So without further ado, here are some family snaps … More Fab Feb Photo Collage Festival: Day 27 Christmases Past
It’s Christmas Eve and we’re all looking forward to a special day tomorrow -especially the littlies…what will do without the bribery of Santa? I do hope my grandchildren’s little hearts cope with minor disappointments about the precise gift the bearded gentleman, and his helpers, leaves for them. Is your refrigerator like mine? Jammed to the … More Happy Christmas to one and all
This week our family has been gratefully blessed with a Christmas miracle, not a term I use glibly. Our smallest grandson did something of a Humpty Dumpty, head-butting concrete in one of those hideous quirks of fate that spin our worlds from their normal orbit. So many terrifying outcomes have been averted and after a … More Our family’s Christmas miracle
Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did people in your neighbourhood decorate with lights? Did some people really go “all out” when decorating? Any stories involving your ancestors and decorations? I don’t recall … More Advent calendar of memories 2011: 5th December – Outdoor decorations
Family history across the seas 