Have you ever given a (reflective) narrative of your whole life in sixty to ninety minutes? How many times and to how many people? In most relationships this information usually gets passed on in bits and pieces over time. One thing we are doing this week is hearing each other’s stories. It will form the …
A Daily Mail story about photographs taken of habitual drunkards in Edwardian times. The photos and accompanying detail served as a database by which police and pub landlords could watch out for these folks. Apart from the fact that everyone is so short by modern standards, the faces and information allude to some very sad …
Yesterday Margaret and I took her parents to visit a historical museum in the town of Millicent, 50kms from here. Part of the display is dedicated to ship-wrecks, a frequent part of life along the coastline of our region. The photo below shows a map with tags of the wrecks that took place between 1838 …
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