Hi Tracy. I found you inspiring with all your posts and workshop at the library not that long ago if you remember me from that group of other keen writers like you. Were you born in Port Pirie as I have relatives who lived in Port Pirie who lost their son in WW1. My grandmother came from there with her family. Sadly, I never met Mary/Millie as my grandmother because she died while making a cup of tea for my Mother Clare and my dad Richard. Mum was pregnant with my third oldest brother James/Jim. Our grandmother died suddenly, from a cerebral haemmorrhage. Millie was a music teacher and not sure if she had any training back then to be a music teacher? I haven't checked this up yet, But I have done some research onto her dear brother who was killed in WW1 - beautiful photo of him on horse.
I did not expect you to end with Charles and Diana! But it made me remember their tour and when they drove past our house - it was a stinking hot day and we stood outside on the footpath for ages, checking ABC radio for updates. Diana was sitting on our side of the car :)
Good old blogger/blogspot. Those were the days of bad formatting. I think I had four blogs back in the day. First one was at the peak of the crafting revival in Melbourne (2008), then I just kept making more.
Love the pic of your dad. Love to know what he was thinking watching them roll through Port Pirie! When we went to PP toward the end of our year camping around Australia in 2010, we were struck with the slogan the town had to reduce the amount of lead in the town's water by 10% in 2010 (which we were at the end of and there were no signs saying if they'd achieved it). Posted about our short stint there in one of my too many blogspots http://ourtriproundaus.blogspot.com/2010/11/sheltering-by-smelterat-port-pirie-with.html
Hi Tracy. I found you inspiring with all your posts and workshop at the library not that long ago if you remember me from that group of other keen writers like you. Were you born in Port Pirie as I have relatives who lived in Port Pirie who lost their son in WW1. My grandmother came from there with her family. Sadly, I never met Mary/Millie as my grandmother because she died while making a cup of tea for my Mother Clare and my dad Richard. Mum was pregnant with my third oldest brother James/Jim. Our grandmother died suddenly, from a cerebral haemmorrhage. Millie was a music teacher and not sure if she had any training back then to be a music teacher? I haven't checked this up yet, But I have done some research onto her dear brother who was killed in WW1 - beautiful photo of him on horse.
I did not expect you to end with Charles and Diana! But it made me remember their tour and when they drove past our house - it was a stinking hot day and we stood outside on the footpath for ages, checking ABC radio for updates. Diana was sitting on our side of the car :)
Good old blogger/blogspot. Those were the days of bad formatting. I think I had four blogs back in the day. First one was at the peak of the crafting revival in Melbourne (2008), then I just kept making more.
Love the pic of your dad. Love to know what he was thinking watching them roll through Port Pirie! When we went to PP toward the end of our year camping around Australia in 2010, we were struck with the slogan the town had to reduce the amount of lead in the town's water by 10% in 2010 (which we were at the end of and there were no signs saying if they'd achieved it). Posted about our short stint there in one of my too many blogspots http://ourtriproundaus.blogspot.com/2010/11/sheltering-by-smelterat-port-pirie-with.html