June 2026
Our Family in Wartime
We are Baby Boomers, the generation conceived and born, as normal life picked up again, after the end of the Second World…
Berta Holm
February 2025
Fire and Storm
MY COUNTRY By Dorothy MacKellar ‘I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains. I…
May 2024
Pins and Needles
SUE Although I have grown up with sewing and sewers in my life, it has never captured my interest, until recently. I…
February 2023
Hair
Our plan was to write about hairstyles. Many of our family photos feature the hairstyles that were popular at the time, so…
October 2022
Women’s Work
Like women throughout history, most of the women in our family have had the primary job of parent and homemaker. Those homes…
March 2019
Auntie Bert, a “sterling character”
These three young women are our grandmother Alfreda on the left, with her two younger sisters, Beatrice in the middle and Berta…
December 2017
I can hear sleigh bells
Christmas has always been special time in our lives. It is not surprising, I suppose, as the whole of society gears up…
November 2017
The Farm
About 1950, our mother’s aunt, Beat, and her husband Bill sold up their grocery store and their Balwyn house, took their youngest…
October 2015
Twelfth Birthday Letters to Alice
Letter writing is all but dead. When we were cleaning out our mother’s flat, after she had died, there was a collection…