We all have funny incidents in our lives and Story Circle members were asked to recall a amusing story for their life. Alice came with one of the best...
Joyce tells us about living in Peterborough in rural South Australia as a child and the upgrading of their external 'long drop'tiolet with a 'toilet pan'. The nightcart man was responsible for regularly picking up full pans and replacing them with empty pans. One day there was a mishap in the...
I am an expert crocheter, thanks to my grandma’s teaching, yet an equally-inept knitter and seamstress, despite my grandma’s teaching. From a very young age, my grandma was a gifted seamstress, knitter, and crocheter. (Her dad had been a tailor. She figured she must have “inherited” her talent from him.) When...
Ever since I can remember, I have been interested in writing. As a teenager, I would stay up late at night writing poems and stories while the rest of the family was sleeping. Since I shared a room with my sister and could not leave the light on, I would sit...
Judith recounts her school life as her father changed jobs and they moved from Loftus to Griffith, then the family moved to Queensland. They lived in Nambour and she enjoyed her time at the Nambour High School.
Joyces tells us what it was like to go to three different primary schools - Peterborough, East Adelaide and Magill Schools in South Australia
Joyce talks about playing basketball (netball) and tennis with the school teams and her structured PE lessons at primary school.
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesteryDick Pellek The First Time I Met Up With A ….. Many vivid memories are about the first time that the Footloose Forester met a wild or dangerous animal, face to face. Early memories are about small animals caught in traps. Brother...
Jill shares her memories of school at St Joseph's, her love of reading and her horror of mental arithmetic.
Annette recalls her days at Marrayatville Primary School and Norwood High School in Adelaide during the 1960's.
This is a story worth hearing. Margaret tells of her experience as a secondary student in Lincoln, UK during WWII and how her parents decided that it would be safer if she and her sister were evacuated to Canada....
Judith recounts how she worked with her mother to fundraise to build a school at Loftus where she lived. Then at 8 years of age Judith attended Griffith Primary School, where her lifelong love of reading began.
Annette talks about her memories of primary school days in Marryatville - an eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, during the 1950's.
Margaret recalls her school days and talks about her best subject at school...
Jill talks about playing board games as a child, her favourite books and outdoor activities and her friend, Maria.
Margaret talks about sport at school in Lincoln, UK during the late 1930's and early 1940's.
Jill talks about her carefree childhood growing up in Clare South Australia. She tells us how she played dolls and dress up with her friends and describes a variety of other childhood games.
Margaret tells the tale of her first day at school and everything seemed better after that... Copied from St Giles Secondary School Occasional Papers
Bill talks about playing card games and table tennis during his school years. And tells us how sailing became one of his loves.
The first school Margaret attended was St Giles Infants School in Lincoln, Great Britain in the 1930s. Margaret recalls her first school and shows how times were different then.
