How a broken romance led to a pen friend and a future spouse. Alice recalls those bitter sweet days.
Joyce joined the Citizens Military Force, Royal Australian Nursing Corp in 1958 and there she met her future husband, Ted. But what about the special date when he arrived smelling strongly of beer!! And he was a teetotaller!
Ruth was 21 when she met Murdoch, her future spouse. He was not what she expected and she wasn't sure that he was the 'right one'.
Judith moved to Darwin from Adelaide to live with her parents and younger siblings in 1970. She soon was gathered in by workmates and friends and started socialising with the young people of Darwin. Food was all trucked in to Darwin at that time, and there were not many places to...
Joyce talks about her early teenage years, her first romance with a boy named Ray and the social normas of the 1950's.
Judith shares with us a very poignant story of her first love - a young boy named Geoff who she shared her life with from a very early age until she was 7 years old. His family moved away, but he came back into her life as a close friend when...
Ruth tells us an interesting story of her mother's advice on the best place to meet a nice christian boy. She then goes on to give us a somewhat amusing account of her first date and her first love.
Margaret's argument when she first met Ted, eventually led to love, not at 1st sight, but at 5th sight. They were engaged at Xmas 1944 and then married on 31st January 1945, when Ted was on embarkation leave prior to leaving to serve in the Navy in Australia.
Margaret shares the story of her first kiss which made her angry. It was her 2nd kiss that led to her first love which resulted in marriage and 60 years of happiness.
For our 25 year wedding anniversary, I surprised Byron with a trip to Asheville, NC for a two night stay at the Biltmore House. Our anniversary is December 31st. When we arrived, we were treated like royality. We decided we wanted something to eat but not a full meal so we...
On my 16th birthday my beloved grandmother gave me a ring. It was a simple, and in todays standards, very inexpensive ring but to me it was worth EVERYTHING. It was round with dainty scallops around the edges and my initials engraved in the center. I slipped it on my finger...
Alice talks about being 18 and all that........
Jill was living in Clare South Australia when she was a teenager and her interests were table tennis and tennis and going to local balls and dances in Clare and Jamestown. She tells us about moving to Adelaide and finding the right place to board and going to dances at Burnside...
Annette tells us about meeting a boy named Scott at the school social. He was a very serious boy and she was very shy. On their first date they went to the drive-in theatre to watch a movie, or so she thought....................
Margaret tells us that she didn't have many days off while working for her father in 1943, however she and her sister were silver medallist dancers and attended the school dances (even though they had left school). They also went for walks and did a lot of reading. When she joined...
Margaret talks about joining the Wren's, her initial training period and her posting to the small village of Eglington. She was a Signal Messenger, delivering messages by car and bike. Her most memorable delivery was to a young man who at the end of the shift refused to sign for the...
Bill talks about his first crush and how it got crushed by sailing......
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The RT Probe When we finally decided that clam hunting was going to be a steady part of our future lives, Thu and the Footloose Forester decided that one Hawaiian Sling was not enough to make our...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Tiger and The Bear Lots of couples have nicknames for one another, and Footloose Forester and his soul mate were among that group. Thu’s mother was known by some people as Tiger Dao, and with the...
He was very tall. Had dark hair slicked back. And the handsomest boy I had ever met.
