Category Archives: nostalgia

Nostalgia on D-Day — 2001

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Neil

Starting last Sunday I have been looking back, though I’ve not yet turned into a pillar of salt. As I mentioned on Monday I have found a back-up of quite a few of my old posts from Diary-X and elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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Memorabilia 19: wartime wedding

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Neil

My uncle Keith and aunt Ruth. My father in RAAF uniform is best man. The bridesmaid I am not sure about – Ruth’s sister, or a friend?

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Memorabilia 17 – Sydney University: Fisher Library c.1960

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Neil

I suspect this is a few years before 1960, when I arrived at Uni, but the Library is as it was then. To the right were the book stacks, remarkable for their glass floors. That door at the end opened … Continue reading →

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Memorabilia 16 – 50 years on

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Neil

Me, 1955 See also Memorabilia 15: 1959 — or thereabouts, Fifty years on – guess what, nothing is for ever!, Now, what did I learn half a century ago?, Sydney Boys High School 1955, I wasn’t a prefect…, Time and … Continue reading →

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Memorabilia 15: 1959 — or thereabouts

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Neil

Watching the episode on Compass tonight on the Billy Graham Crusade of 1959 — yes I was there and may post something on Floating Life soon — really took me back fifty years! But the jewels here are not mine. … Continue reading →

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memorabilia 14: the graduation 1965

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Neil

My mother and I See also End of decade – or not.

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memorabilia 10: cradle roll 19 August 1945

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Neil

  I was a very rare attender over the next ten years

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memorabilia 6: Papua 1945

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Neil

Towards the end of World War II my father was stationed in Port Moresby. There used to be more photos and memorabilia, but most of them are gone. I think this is Hanuabada.

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memorabilia 1: overview (also posted on Floating Life)

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Neil

This post really does connect to the one prior to it, and all of them to the various family history pages you may see in the side bar.

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End of decade – or not

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Neil

Well obviously not quite, and it is a moot point whether decades start with 00 or 01. Whatever, we are closing on the end of the first decade of the 21st century, so let’s idiosyncratically run the last ten decades … Continue reading →

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